Someone or not?

Solid but light

Revisado: 10-23-24

Ignoring the reading performance which is, frankly, boring, the content is shallow. It's good, but shallow. Lots of words to make a small point. This is a real missed oportunity. Our maybe the depth was there, but I tuned out to often to hear it.

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Narrator ruins it

Revisado: 03-02-24

I made it through because of the quality of content. But the narrator is frankly awful. Almost no emotion. No timing for impact. Minimal intonation.

Content is great though.

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It's a self help book, not what I hoped for

Revisado: 03-02-24

To be fair I only got about an hour in, I stopped listening to this kind of self help in my 20s. Might suit some, but like most self help it's personal opinion applied in a generalist way without any understanding that we are all individuals.

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Arrogant, but insightful

Revisado: 12-13-23

Wow, this guy is so full of himself. But one might say he deserves it.

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Content is good. Production is awful.

Revisado: 03-28-22

It's really hard to concentrate when the audio switches microphone and environment for short periods multiple times a chapter. Often in mid sentence. This sentence, could for example, start in one audio space, switch to another, then back again.

Is akin to a printed book changing font size, style and color mid sentence.

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Lacks imagination

Revisado: 01-17-21

This is nothing more than a meander through our understanding of the universe we live in. The assumption is that is we are in a simulation of is in a world that looks like ours. This is only an exploration of how We would create a simulation. At least that's the case for the first couple of hours, after that I have no idea as I stopped listening.

Disappointing.

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Me me me

Revisado: 04-04-20

The author has an ego that is out of control. Every situation is illustrated by a "fantastic(al)" story about how amazing the author is as a human being. By the sixth chapter it has become to much. I couldn't listen to how I needed to be like him to be a compassionate achiever.

I'd rather be like me, a somewhat humble achiever.

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Oh so obvious

Revisado: 12-23-18

I got through the intro and the first chapter. No more.

The "insights" were that to succeed you had to be able to be creative with intelligent machines, be a leader in your field or have lots of Capital. That's not incorrect, but the positioning of this as something new because of technology is nonsense (replace intelligent machines with "new technology" and none of these things have changed for a very long time).

If the premise is so shallow I have no desire to waste my time on the details. I'll put my Deep Work into more productive use.

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Some great insights but...

Revisado: 11-16-17

Too much self important rambling. Could be said in half the words. Worth a read but I doubt I'll come back to it a second time.

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Hyperbole and hubris dressed as intelligence

Revisado: 10-14-17

I struggled through the first 3 chapters. All I heard was very light discussion of different approaches to machine learning with an ever more frequent promise to decribe the one master algorithm. Maybe I'm missing out. Maybe there is some actual content later in the book, but I have better things to do than listen to three chapters with no content so I guess I'll miss out on the buries gems later in the book.

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