![]() Someday, we should get Schoneck to write a book himself. Although it was a quick read for most of us, I think the overall feeling was that Schoneck’s initial discussion of the story was actually more interesting than the book itself, which spent rather a lot of time focused on the politics and quirks of England in the early 18th century. Since there was already a book we’d started talking about ready to go, we began by reading Longitude. Emily takes reading very, very seriously, and the company book club that she would create (the Slack channel we use for the group was created by her, so I don’t need to rely on my awful memory for that) would be her third concurrent reading group. I don’t recall exactly who it was that suggested we start a company book club, but my money would be on Brand Manager Emily Volk. Schoneck’s excitement over the history of this one man’s lifelong quest to create a sea-clock that would eventually revolutionize mapmaking and sea travel was contagious, and several of us showed interest. ![]() 1 Second Everyday’s COO Schoneck Shoaf was talking about a book he’d recently started reading – a nonfiction book called Longitude by Dava Sobel, about an English carpenter and watchmaker named John Harrison, who designed the first reliably working sea-clock. ![]() ![]() It started as a casual before-dinner conversation during 1SE’s team retreat in Cancun, Mexico. ![]()
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