Terry Hanson

Nostalgic and somewhat accurate

Revisado: 04-07-25

If you are looking for a book about memory lane this is a good story. It gets a lot of detail about the scene etc. Also give people who might not be familiar with the history of 80-90’s sole history.

Although I would say the book is really light on technology and focuses more on the people, and not even their technical accomplishments but more about their motivations.

I guess I expected a book about CDC to obviously glow about them. But a lot is conflated. I was in the scene back then and cdc was more of a zine of random things. No technical chops at all: at beyond hope no one cared about cdc. Everyone thought mudge was a rockstar but that was become of lopht not cdc. A lot of people were in multiple groups.

Either way nice to see some of the history is preserved.

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Does everything have to be political anymore?

Revisado: 03-31-25

I love Malcom Gladwell and his books are thoughtful and thought provoking with unique perspectives etc.

But he is really cherry picking his data. Harvards athletic team of unpopular sports may help white students who choose to join. But nothing prevents back students from joining, other than his example of wealthy parents paying a lot for their tennis kids. He picked the most expensive sport possible to say wealthy white will benefit. But most of those sports are uncompetitive compared to major sports and it’s easy for people to join the rowing team and fencing etc. Also he fails to talk about black students who benefit from football, track, basketball etc.

He talks about UT Austin Supreme Court case about diversity entrance requirements. But his whole point of view is white or back. He fails to address asian, or that Hispanics are generally classified as white. He just barks some old tired 1960’s race bating BS.

Even though I might disagree on parts. He is still one of the best story tellers you can find.

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Many really creative stories

Revisado: 12-31-24 El oyente recibió este título gratis

There are a lot of different and interesting stories. The author does a good job of variety. Most of the stories are pretty quick which is a nice change of pace.

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If you like rpgs you’ll like this comedy

Revisado: 10-14-24

A lot of this book is similar to dialogue you see in a RPG game. So I don’t think it was for me. Towards the very end I did start to get into it a bit. There is a lot of snarky humor. But all in all the book felt like an RPG to me - a lot of grind.

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Beneficial but a bit over blown

Revisado: 10-14-24

First few chapters are pretty good. The basic premise of the book is a breathing technique similar to tummo breathing and cold water are beneficial.

But then Hoff makes a million claims about everything it will cure, with no supporting evidence of the study, sample size, distribution etc.

Also there is much in this book is him rambling about his life and squatting etc which has nothing to do with the method.

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Lewis worst book

Revisado: 07-26-24

I have read or listened to every one of Lewis books. They are all masterpieces except this one. He wrote a book about a person with no personality. I get he’s trying to tie a narrative around crypto, SBF, and the fallout to your average person. But for such a gifted writer he missed the mark on interesting. Quoting Sam while it highlights he’s a sociopath is not very interesting content. I can’t wait for Lewis next book he’s a favorite author of mine.

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Interesting and fun time piece

Revisado: 07-01-24

This was originally a podcast. It would have been one of the better podcasts but I don’t think bundling things together makes a book. The story starts off a bit all over the place I skipped to the second chapter. You don’t need to spend 1/4 of the book trying to set the scene of the story. Or maybe if you never experienced it you do, I guess it’s personal preference. The story was interesting and compelling. The even the people who lived in ogs hat and their parallels with people online was nicely done. I liked this thoughts about the story at the end too.

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Wanna be Hank Moody meets Warren Buffett

Revisado: 06-28-24

Kira’s book is more homage to herself than tech leaders. She discusses how deeply she understood every technology trend, even more than the people creating the direction. She was so astute bankers called her for financial advice. Presumably because she could perform financial analysis better than them. I’m not doubting she spoke to a few, I just doubt they called her for investing advice. With an irony which goes missed, she rails against how arrogant everyone else is, except her.

She rambles on about Trump. How’s she’s single handedly fighting the war against Trump: She toots her horn about how important she is government officials come to her.

She often complains how much tech founders have made, but then brags about her own wealth, and how much her all things digital brought in.

She complains how many men are in tech but fails to look at the root cause - lack of women in computer science programs and just picks the natatice that makes her feel best and is low effort thinking

She only complains about whit men but Indian men run about half of all Bay Area companies. Also fails to criticize the worst female ceos’s

She only covers about 4-5 of the most obvious CEO’s. She lumps them in with tech, but she calls many b2c companies (Airbnb, Tesla, Uber, Amazon retail) tech companies, but their revenue does not come from selling technology like Hpe/dell. They sell non technology products like hotel fares, taxi fares etc who just happen to leverage technology. So in that respect Johnson and Johnson sell non technology products and leverage technology in the same in the same vain.

That being said after about the first third I kind of tuned her out and found her rants against tech bros pretty interesting. She has a way with words that can hook and captivate you.

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Probably the most exhaustive book on the subject I have found if you can tolerate AI voice

Revisado: 11-25-23

Great story. A lot of great history and careful research have gone into this. If you are interested in the topic of phone hacking / phreaking this outstanding

The only area of improvement is having AI narrate the book. It’s a bit monotone and has unnatural spacing in certain instances. There are so many great speaker they let this one diminish the audiobook a bit.

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Essential for any music fan

Revisado: 09-15-23

What an incredible piece of work. If you like Tom Petty, you’ll leave loving him as a human and an artist after this book.

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