Nessan Harpur

Great for noobs, but some laughably basic filler

Revisado: 06-30-23

I’m a noob to insurance and this was excellent. A great intro to all the lingo, business model, relationships and financial modeling.

Also specific stuff like market access providers, carriers and how to negotiate with them and more. It’s basic but it’s very helpful for understanding.

The bad stuff is the filler content. There are a lot of very unnecessary points made in this book. For example:

1. a several minute discussion on desktop vs laptop computers.

2. talking about how working from home like it’s a novel concept.

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Footnotes are extensive

Revisado: 02-11-22

I liked the delivery of the story, pronunciation is on point and the story is solid.

I’m 70% of the way through and finding the footnotes increasingly annoying. A good narrative is put together, only to be sabotaged by the tangential info in a footnote. If there’s an abridged version, I’d recommend it over this.

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Brilliant

Revisado: 03-09-21

One of the best books I’ve listened to. Strongly recommend listening while cycling, it’ll make you think differently about your bike :)

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Better read than listen

Revisado: 02-08-21

I have this book in paperback and in audible. I’ve heard these authors speak on podcasts and they’re excellent, engaging. I actually heard them talk up this book and was really looking forward to it in audible.

The story is great but the delivery is very irritating. The transitions from Lonergan to Blyth are very distracting, it’s hard to follow the content. Then whenever Blyth ‘asks a genuine question’, I found it interrupts your listening and you end up losing track of the discussion.

Lonergan will be finishing a well articulated and engaging point on tribalism or inequality, when abruptly it feels, he is interrupted by Blyth who proceeds to ask an emotionless and canned question which removes any feeling whatsoever that this is a genuine dialogue. Instead it’s irritating and then you miss part of the others argument or continued point.

Having seen the printed copy, I would recommend that above this. It could be excellent as a dialogue but the performance is just too poor.

It would’ve been better if just Lonergan or just Blyth had of narrated, I’ve seen multiple narrators work elsewhere but not here.

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Insightful & interesting

Revisado: 01-22-21

This is a great book and definitely suitable for audio. I learned a huge amount about the development of societies, history of tools, farming, hunter gatherers etc.

The only challenge for me, is that in the last 2.5 hours there are a few tables that the narrator reads out. It’s good information and interesting tidbits but unfortunately, it’s painful to listen to a table being read out loud. Other than that, which is rare - it’s an excellent listen.

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Great Voice - another business book

Revisado: 05-02-20

Great great speaker. What a joy to listen to.

This book is not practical unless you will be negotiating with a bank robber or a hostage taker anytime soon. The author does say several times ‘this is a practical how to’ - it’s really not. I think that’s a lie.

The book itself is interesting. It’s like every other business book: has a few new things to learn, very well written and 2-3 times longer than it needs to be.

Still, it’s enjoyable.

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