Ian Wagner

Thought provoking; first half better than rest

Revisado: 02-09-23

Interesting book. First half left me laughing and crying constantly. I’m pretty cynical already but the amount of BS jobs was even worse than I thought. Then it slowly turned into a weird mix of Marxism and academic research, culminating in a call to consider UBI. While I don’t agree with the author’s conclusions, it was a thought provoking book.

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Great, but abridged

Revisado: 03-21-21

Like what the heck, Audible? Why isn’t this flagged as abridged? And where is the full version?

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Best books I’ve read in a while

Revisado: 01-25-21

I read quite a few business, psychology, etc. books with a focus on decision making over the last 2 years and this is by far one of the best. The other of course being Thinking Fast and Slow. Most of the rest were pretty skippable. Don’t skip this one.

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Never been more relevant

Revisado: 08-14-20

The author is articulate and has depth of thought that has been all but lost in the intervening decades filled with an ever faster race toward short term thinking by politicians as well as the general population of Western countries. This book has never been more relevant. Required reading.

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Decent overall story but horribly told

Revisado: 06-18-20

Overall story arc was solid. But I felt myself rolling my eyes every few minutes with so many ridiculous cliches, stereotypes, clear lack of knowledge of computers, and extremely angry women. Actually kind of sexist in a way.

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Fantastic recording

Revisado: 06-05-20

Great all around. Even includes some appendices as a nice bonus! Thoroughly enjoyed this after reading the books several times as a kid, and listening to a few other audio adaptations. Highly recommend.

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Great book; especially relevant today

Revisado: 05-24-20

It's amazing to see how often history rhymes ;) I very much recommend this book, both in spite of and because of this age. However, I have no clue how this release made it past QA. The chapter cuts seem to match audio cassettes or something since they are roughly the same length and have no relation to any sort of logical break.

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One of the best books i’ve ever read on markets

Revisado: 03-31-20

This book should be required reading for anyone interested in investing, markets, or finance. Basic familiarity with options and mathematics is extremely helpful and understanding this book, but it is overall quite approachable.

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Great book; audio issues

Revisado: 03-12-20

Amazing book. Classic. But. Geez, how did the digitization pass QA? Sounds like they have issues with their tape deck. Very disappointed in Audible’s QA.

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Overall good advice

Revisado: 11-30-19

The book contains overall good advice. I appreciated the way that it illustrates concepts via a story, so the reader can intuitively learn, though frankly the story was obviously contrived and overly predictable. But that’s not why you buy such a book. Additionally, the narration was pretty terrible.

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