Michael

A five hour rationalization to why this guy left his job

Revisado: 01-20-24

Great premise that leads nowhere. The book becomes too tedious too fast, leaving the reader empty-handed. The whole narrative can be summarized as “I left my well paid job, I didn’t know why, but here are 100 quotes from other philosophers that might help you understand”.

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Incredible

Revisado: 02-01-23

Great storytelling, very informative and deep yet accessible to a newbie. Gives you not only historical overview, but also clarity to understand ins and outs of the illness and challenges in diagnostics and treatment. Loved every minute of the book and would definitely pick up other works by that author.

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A must read

Revisado: 11-23-22

A must read for anyone who deals with stress on an ongoing basis. Read this even if you’re working with a therapist, this book is a great supplement

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Fantastic

Revisado: 08-28-22

A deep and well researched phenomenon of spin dictatorships presented in an engaging and easy to comprehend manner. Gives you great insight into what happens with the modern day authoritarian regimes and what awaits them. Great read, can highly recommend!

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Mishmash of declarations and theology

Revisado: 01-05-22

Not at all what I’ve expected.
Rather than a systematic work this is a patchy collection of authors ideas (some of them are biased superficial stereotypes) and religious quotations (e.g. it took Jesus 48 days to pass through the desert).
If you’re looking for substance, pls look elsewhere.

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Insightful and challenging

Revisado: 12-30-21

This was an interesting read, that might expand the mind even of an advanced product manager. Good tools and insightful real-life cases.

What was lacking is the personal story behind the book, which made it seem a little stale and “textbookish” rather than a gripping read.

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Excellent book

Revisado: 12-10-21

Insightful, gripping and brilliantly narrated. One of the best books on brain in general. Recommended

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Wisdom from one of the best thinkers on strategy

Revisado: 10-20-21

Book has great insights into the mind of Richard Rumelt and his thinking process on strategy and decision making in general.

However, besides high level frameworks the practicalities of the book are questionable. Author tries to present a vast majority of strategic cases from military to IT industries, however, the tools suggested in the book are far not enough to grasp the logic behind some of the strategies and require a pretty advanced level of familiarity with economics and business operations.

More over, I found his attempt to deconstruct a strategy in details a little too patchy and hard to apply to real life business cases.

At times it was hard to connect to the book because author goes into abstract textbook descriptions, detaching the listener.

All in all, a good read for personal insights, but IMO not the most practical book on strategy.

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Puts ageing into proper perspective

Revisado: 09-28-21

This book is gives an exhaustive overview of the ageing process and the molecular biology that drives it.

The author is smart, witty and very structured. I personally enjoyed the narrative, the intellectual stimulus and the questions the author raised. Even for a newcomer to the field the majority of topics will become clear as they are thoroughly explained in a language that is fairly easy to grasp.

What is lacking is his personal research history (the whole book is basically a meta-analysis of existing research) and recommendations on living a longer life are pretty generic. No actionable groundbreaking insights on how to leave longer now, author states that most of the referenced research is in preliminary stages.

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Great book, needs a pdf however

Revisado: 09-05-21

Some ideas in this book will change the way you think (if you’re not a math major at least). Great structure, storytelling and humor. Nevertheless, it’s close to impossible to understand some of the concepts by just listening (as there are arrays of numbers, graphs etc), an accompanying pdf is a must. Narrator was annoying at times as well. But if you get past it - a great book, nonetheless.

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