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Outstanding

Revisado: 10-14-24

Tons of research, thoughtful reasoning, and humor. I’m going to get my hands on a text copy before I make a final judgment. If he doesn’t use the Oxford comma, then I’ll have to disregard everything in the book and come back here to completely reverse this review. -Team Oxford Comma-

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Better than expected, and I expected it to be great.

Revisado: 01-15-24

An alternate review title might be “Thorough research and great storytelling.” I appreciate how Newcomb and Rinella can relate both history and natural science in a way that maintains accuracy while still being relatable to someone who hasn’t been trained in either discipline. I was a bit apprehensive about the presentation style after hearing it described on one of the podcast episodes. I was worried that something between a traditional audiobook and a podcast would be awkward. As it turns out, I didn’t have anything to worry about. The presentation, with narration alternating between the two authors, made for an engaging listen. I found myself looking at the progress bar and being disappointed as I neared the end.

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A bit off the mark?

Revisado: 03-28-22

Unless I completely missed the author’s point, one of their objectives is to criticize how capitalism negatively influenced the land development and population distribution of Texas. However, it actually achieved the objective of demonstrating how people in state government negatively influenced the land development and population distribution of Texas by thinking they could legitimately mix politics and actual capitalism. The author conflates “capitalism” and “capitalist” with “rent seeking” and “rent seekers.” Many former capitalists become rent seekers. However, these are distinctly different professions marked by distinctly different activities. Understanding the difference is very important when attempting to build an argument against capitalism.

The narration is generally well done. Some of the phraseology is disjointed; likely do to a limited understanding of the vocabulary around cattle ranching/farming.

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Worth more the than the investment

Revisado: 03-14-21

The concepts in this book are worth far more than the monetary and time investment required to consume them. I suspect the investment it will require to put the concepts into practice will also be small relative to the rewards they will yield. I started listening with the idea that Dr. Newport would provide suggestions for doing away with email altogether; a grand objective that might seem naive to most. I was excited to find that he addresses much, much more.

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Common sense, but not obvious

Revisado: 02-21-21

Worth the short and easy listen. The narration is a little quirky if you’re used to highly produced audio books. But, just consider it more of a solo podcast or lecture and, although I haven’t yet applied them, I’m confident the concepts will be valuable. Thanks, Rob!

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Please read or listen to this book

Revisado: 04-21-20

If I write what I honestly think about this book it will sound like hyperbole. Please read or listen to it.

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I appreciate the deference

Revisado: 09-08-19

Just as anyone would, I disagreed with a few points Scott Adams makes in this book. However, I appreciated his deference. In fact, I am much more willing to reconsider my opinions when someone states theirs as Scott has in this book. This is a really good read/listen with extremely helpful suggestions.

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Insightful, valuable

Revisado: 04-07-19

Dr. Peterson’s ability to support and explain his theses add tremendous value to the already-valuable theses themselves. This book can improve your life if you let it.

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Well-written and extremely interesting

Revisado: 07-09-17

I enjoyed this entire book. The authors do a great job explaining economic concepts for a lay audience. While there are some political implications to their theories and they do suggest som policy approaches, they do a good job of not getting lost in the tall weeds of politics outside of a social science tool. As for content, I wondered at times if there is a component of applying new terminology to some standard economic principles. But, they present historical and new data from empirical studies that are very impressive to me as not being classically trained in the science of economics (aka, the study of scarcity).

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