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Sweat Equity
- Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body
- De: Jason Kelly
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 41
Sweat Equity goes inside the multibillion dollar trend toward endurance sports and fitness to discover who's driving it, who's paying for it, and who's profiting. Bloomberg's Jason Kelly, author of The New Tycoons, profiles the participants, entrepreneurs, and investors at the center of this movement, exploring this phenomenon in which a surge of people - led by the most affluent - are becoming increasingly obsessed with looking and feeling better.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just facts, no analysis
- De Rich RK en 05-07-23
- Sweat Equity
- Inside the New Economy of Mind and Body
- De: Jason Kelly
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
Just facts, no analysis
Revisado: 05-07-23
The majority of the book is a deep dive into marathons and how the economics of them has changed, which definitely is not the main thrust of the subtitle. The front half does talk about Soulcycle, CrossFit, Equinox, etc. but to nowhere be at the extent or depth of the long distance running half. It seems like the first part was tacked on so they could have a full book vs. a short book just about marathons. Throughout as well, the writings are fairly rosey-eyed with little criticism or critique of the business practices or the negatives of having billions of dollars tied up in pushing these potentially dubious and dangerous fitness routines and practices. Not bad at all, but feels more of a recitation of facts than any level of analysis
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It Came from Something Awful
- How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
- De: Dale Beran
- Narrado por: Dale Beran
- Duración: 10 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 407
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 354
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 354
The internet has transformed the ways we think and act, and by consequence, our politics. The most impactful recent political movements on the far left and right started with massive online collectives of teenagers. Strangely, both movements began on the same website: an anime imageboard called 4chan.org. It Came from Something Awful is the fascinating and bizarre story of 4chan and its profound effect on youth counterculture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This book was way better than it needed to be.
- De Samuel T. en 10-13-19
- It Came from Something Awful
- How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office
- De: Dale Beran
- Narrado por: Dale Beran
Fine Until the Tumblr Chapter
Revisado: 10-22-21
A very interesting historical analysis until the tumble chapter fairly late in the book. I was confused why it came so late in the relative chronological arrangement of the book (it comes after chapters around 2016 when tumble was much less popular at this time), but the chapter itself is very condescending, myopic, and historical. It gestures towards but glosses over the academic, queer, critical, etc. work that informed the trends he describes seeing in tumblr. Because of this, it seems like tumblr’s ideas are randomly made up by teens vs. an extension of broader philosophical and academic ideas and theories. So they sound ridiculous. This then makes me much more skeptical of his analyses in early chapters. I thought I sensed a strain of somewhat conservative thought early on (e.g. the frequent deadnaming of trans figures) but I have the author the benefit of the doubt. But now I’m not so certain. And I don’t think that then leads to an objective analysis of the main focus of the book.
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The Hypochondriac's Handbook
- Syndromes, Diseases, and Ailments that Probably Should Have Killed You By Now
- De: Ian Landau
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
- Duración: 3 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 18
Sure, everyone gets sick sometimes, but do you realize that plenty of those folks also die slow, unpleasant deaths from diseases that stumped even the experts at top-notch (still privately run) hospitals? That's right: There are plenty of illnesses that even physicians have never heard about. Nodding Disease, Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, and Cutaneous Horn (yes, you grow a horn) are all featured here in pithy, energetic entries. You won't have to worry about socialized medicine if you have this book....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Fine until it included pseudoscience
- De Rich RK en 01-27-21
- The Hypochondriac's Handbook
- Syndromes, Diseases, and Ailments that Probably Should Have Killed You By Now
- De: Ian Landau
- Narrado por: Robert Blumenfeld
Fine until it included pseudoscience
Revisado: 01-27-21
A very fun, fairly light listen until you reach the chapter on Morgellons Disease. This is widely regarded as an unsubstantiated, self-diagnosed, and unscientific skin condition, often intertwined with conspiracy theories and is a condition that has repeatedly been seen as connected to delusional infestations / delusional parasitosis in general. The entire chapter feels like “both sides-ism” and while mentioning the controversial nature of Morgellons, severely downplays the fact that few medical professionals and researchers view it as a real disease unique from other delusions and failing entirely to mention that Mary Leitao (the non-doctor who coined the name Morgellons) was described by many doctors as exhibiting symptoms of factitious disorder imposed on another (i.e. FDIA and previously Münchausen syndrome by proxy). It really poisoned the well of the book as a whole.
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