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Doesn’t stand the test of time

Revisado: 05-02-25

See Levys Hackers for a better story. Or Isaacson for a better account of early computers.

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A series of inspirational tweets, unrelated to each other

Revisado: 03-23-25

I like Seth Godin a lot, enjoyed his other books, expected similar here. But instead, this is a series of inspirational thoughts for creators. Which is great if that is what you were looking for. But I come to books for thorough thoughtful building ideas.
I recommend the war of art by Steven Pressfield (which is referenced in this book) as a much better version. Pressfield tells more personal stories which make more sense and build on each other.

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More lovemaking than business

Revisado: 12-09-24

I just finished Marriott’s “success is never final”. It is about how the Marriott hotel Empire was built and came to be number one by far.

So I thought I would check out the Hilton side of the story, Sadly the author seems to care more about details of lovemaking and who is getting spurned then how Conrad built the Empire, the children expanded it, and the difficult choices they faced.

In fairness, it wasn’t presented as a business book.
I had hoped given how long it was it would include the business stuff along with the personal stuff. But more time is spent on Nikki and his numerous romantic conquests and addictions than why they decided to sell the international hotels he was in charge of.

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Slow wrong voice for an otherwise fine story

Revisado: 09-17-24

It is good and detailed, but I found Walter Isaacson’s the innovators much better.
The narrator reads it with a theatre voice instead of a non-fiction voice.

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Puff piece with no details about biz

Revisado: 07-09-24

First chapter was good, but down hill from there. I don’t need to hear for the hundredth time you ONLY use the freshest ingredients, and terrible as it is I’m not here to hear how substances and abuse affected the family. Or a run down of collector cups.

What I was hoping for was how the decision is made to build a new distribution centre in a new territory. How you deal with aggressive competitors like Mc D and BK. Why leave California for Colorado? What challenges are there in running a private family company vs public or with investors. Why only promote from within but not at the exec level?
What makes a person in and out material at exec level?
Lessons learned?
How much does the 20 event food trucks gross vs store sales? Seems like a big expense for little return.

Sadly this book is written by someone who took over seemingly after all the big decisions were made.

Stay the course and drag race seems to be her motto.

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Lewis’ Weakest Work

Revisado: 03-31-23

Goes into far greater detail than any other Lewis book and lacks the poignancy and humor. Half of the details could be thrown out and the story/points are the same. Do I really need to know he called on his secretaries phone? Or how many parties Danny attended? Or he kept his paratrooper uniform in a trunk in the closet? Or the duo were interviewed for an unpublished book?

Feels like he didn’t have enough broad material so doubled down on what he had: every excruciating detail of Danny and Amos.

What it has to do with basketball drafts it starts with I don’t know.

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The reader understands and perfectly conveys the humor.

Revisado: 03-24-23

Lewis writes witty and is flabbergasted by what he uncovers. The reader perfectly performs the writing.

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Good but too long.

Revisado: 01-03-23

The whole of the story could be told in 1/3 the time.

Interesting how the best way to do good government is to simply do nothing at all. Then no one can complain or protest.

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Not the heroic story of Marvel but of a huckster

Revisado: 07-14-21

Stan Lee created an amazing fictional character: himself. Stan left Marvel in the 70s and never looked back, nor was involved in anything creatively interesting again. This proves his talent was in marketing the gifts of others (Kirby) and self promotion.

If you want to hear the amazing story of Marvel and how it went from bankruptcy to top Hollywood studio read Slugfest.

This book is about a sad , cowardly, old man.

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Better than expected. Just like the iPhone

Revisado: 06-21-19

I’m in tech and thought a history of the iPhone would be interesting. I was wrong. It was absolutely amazing. I really liked how the author followed all the disparate innovations, separately and thoroughly, to this one singular moment. Reads like a thriller.

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