Australia
Country and continent in the southern hemisphere. Jason Goldberg makes his decision to leave Hem while visiting there.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| On the Rebound from Epic Failure | Jason Goldberg | turning point | On a walk during a holiday in Australia his husband Chris asks whether he would build Hem or something else with their own money; he… |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind | Yuval Noah Harari | turning point | Sapiens’ first open-sea crossing, about 45,000 years ago, and the first great extinction of large animals. |
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On the Rebound from Epic Failure — Jason Goldberg (2019)
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I loved what we were building with Hem though, and over the Christmas-New Years holidays at the end of 2015, while visiting Australia, I had to make an important decision as to whether I would personally invest in continuing Hem along with an investor group who was considering a takeover, or whether I would leave the company and start anew.
- Role: turning point
- In the article: On a walk during a holiday in Australia his husband Chris asks whether he would build Hem or something else with their own money; he answers ‘something else’ in under two seconds.
- Why it matters: Turning point where he decides to leave Hem. Place is only as specific as ‘Australia’.
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari (2014)
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The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus’ journey to America or the Apollo 11 expedition to the moon.
- Role: turning point
- In the book: About 45,000 years ago Sapiens crossed the open sea from the Indonesian archipelago to Australia, a feat Harari counts as proof of the Cognitive Revolution. They met giants such as the diprotodon and the marsupial lion, and within a few thousand years 23 of the 24 large species were gone; the chapter weighs hunting, fire and climate as causes.
- Why it matters: It opens the ‘Flood’ chapter and is the book’s first case of Homo sapiens as an ecological serial killer.