I bought the hard copy edition of this book when it first came out years ago. I however hadn't read it until today when I was riding the taxi back to the hotel. I brought this book along with me for this work trip because one of my resolutions for 2017 is to always keep one of the unread books that I bought in my briefcase so I could at least flip a few pages during my transit; if not to finish reading the entire book.
It was at the end of page 20 that I came across a funny prank that Zappos.com's CEO Tony Hsieh pulled on his boss when he was working as a part-time computer programmer at a software company during his senior high school year. One time when his boss was heating the water in the microwave to make tea, Tony stopped the microwave right after his boss walked away so his boss returned to find the cup of water still cold inside the microwave. Unaware of Tony's prank, his boss just turned the mirowave on for 3 minutes again and walked away. But soon as he walked away, Tony stopped the microwave again. When the boss returned again to get the water, he found the water still cold. He cursed the microwave for being broken. This time he set the heating time for 5 minutes instead of 3 minutes out of frustration and walked away. But when he returned 5 minutes later, he found his cup inside the microwave filled with ice cubes. This was now somewhere on page 21, and I was laughing out loud.
May be you don't find this joke as funny as I did, I just want to share it anyway...
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