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Good but not a substitute for doing the work

Revisado: 11-30-23

Alex comes at this from his angle of scaling up gyms and client bases, high value per converted customer. As an e-commerce business there is still plenty for me to take in and learn from, but the approach to growth from zero feels a little different. Maybe it’s because I suck, but I wish he had a success story from this perspective as well. My first five customers net me $20 each, not $500-1000 so it’s a lil different, but this is still a helpful blueprint

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Great first half, unproven second half

Revisado: 11-04-23

The author does a great job explaining life from a secular perspective and is pretty based. He makes an excellent point that because time is finite, that makes it valuable. That because our actions have consequences, they are worth thinking about seriously. There are many great ideas and observations in the first half of this book.

However, he then goes into his own theory on how to go about restructuring society in a way that would value collective decision making and give everyone the opportunity to have the time for the spiritual and philosophical development one needs to decide on what they really want to do with their life.

While his criticisms of capitalism are valid, that does not make his proposed solutions better. Changing the fabric of society is not something to take lightly. He calls for a massive restructuring of society, just so that we can attempt a different outcome. He neglects the possibility of corruption and collapse that has plagued socialism in its past. He offers no safeguards, protections, or acknowledgement of this level of risk.

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Doesn't feel like I'm getting the full story

Revisado: 04-20-23

Koonin does a good job pointing out the shortcomings of the existing models, inconvenient truths of expanding time scales to the entire history of the planet instead of just the last century, and mentioning where data and statistics are manipulated to tell a certain narrative.

At the same time, I don't trust this guy. He seems shady.
- He likes to highlight that he worked under the Obama administration while not talking as much about working for BP.
- He mentions things like H2S gas as a means of cooling the planet but then fails to mention the possible negative health impacts.
- He mentions replacing coal with natural gas cuts CO2 emissions by half, and then talks about his work at BP calculating the cooling effect of soot. Then despite doing the work, he only mentions to us that soot's cooling effect is a "sizeable portion" but never mentions how much, nor does he mention the simple fact that soot in the atmosphere is a health hazard, can cause acid rain, acidification of lakes and rivers, etc.

While Koonin does a great job pointing out missing context from the climate "pros", the simple matter is that I do not sense I am getting the full context from this guy either. So I can only take what he has to say with a grain of salt, as if he too is also potentially guilty of manipulating to statiatics and leaving out 2nd, 3rd, ..., 20th order consequences.

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Substantially different from the book

Revisado: 02-19-23

The 1 star is really only because this audio version of the book is incomplete. The Game is otherwise a great read.
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This audible format skips over sentences, paragraphs and often even entire chapters. Going through the audio with the book, it was extremely difficult to follow along.

This is my second time going through the book. There are really important chapters that the audio version just completely skips over, like the interview with Eric Weber.

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Review of The Game:

I didn't learn pickup from this book. I did learn why pickup is only a bandaid solution to approaching women. In Neil's words, it just produces social robots. The book is full of quotes from master pickup artists talking about why they got into, and why they left the game. But learning some pickup (elsewhere) helped me gain a self of confidence and acceptance of myself that made diving into the culture worth it, even though I knew it's inherently shallow and lacking.

The Game does an excellent job highlighting the dangers of this shallowness in seeking validation through the use manipulation and deception.

You can only deceive a potential mate through memorized scripts and routines for so long. But how pickup can change your perception of yourself, the world, and women is what makes this book an essential read.

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Doesn't line up with the text edition very well

Revisado: 02-12-23

Wonderful story. But the audio does not pair well with the text of the exact same book. Narrator leaves out whole paragraphs and reads sentences, mostly quotes, in different order than as written.

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Excellent perspective shift on creative work

Revisado: 01-17-23

As a software engineer who has had a habit of consuming TONs knowledge while not producing anything outside of work besides philosophical conversations with friends and a bunch of half completed projects, this book gave me the perspective shift I needed to write my first blog post.
More importantly, it gave me the feeling I can do more creative work at a reliable rate. The words started flowing easily. I was shocked to find out I'm capable of writing more than todo lists and lines of code.

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