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Super Book Read By a Super Reader

Revisado: 02-25-25

I’ve admired Bill Gates since I was a kids. Everyone knew who he was in the 80s and 90s but he was a kind of super hero to me. Will Wheaton confirmed that. Listening to the life of Bill Gates by the man who read Ready Player One & 2!, turned this dazzling tale of a maladjusted adolescent into an epic story of a Super Hero. I love this book. After listening to it, I re-read it again, bought 2 copies and sent to friends with troubled smart kids. I’ll internalize his lessons for life. Well Done!!!

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Words of true wisdom

Revisado: 09-19-24

I bought the audio and books 20+ years ago and since lost them. I’m so happy to hear these on Audible. The richest man in Babylon is so classic. Everyone should read this from elementary school all the way through retirement. It’s so simple and yet so important

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Never would have guessed Walmart was this amazing

Revisado: 07-20-24

I’m not sure if it was the orator or the story or the amazing parallel to Phil Night, but this guys was absolutely amazing. I totally get what Jeff Bezos saw in Sam Walton. I’ve never thought of discounting being a “feature” that people wanted. Now a days it’s the opposite. People spend money on the most expensive phone. But then again, not on everything. Sam Walton was amazing. This book it not so much a biography as much as it is a collection of ideas and stories shared by a visionary and his closest allies. I learned so much! I loved it!

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So Addictive You Won’t Stop Till It’s Over

Revisado: 04-01-23

It’s been a very long time since I found a book that I can’t put down. Take two of my favorites. A world class author and a powerfully talented orator and what do you get? The best sci-fi book written since the Martian? No even better since Jules Ver Journey to the Center of the Earth? This book is so fantastically plausible, fun, exciting, geeky, everything you can possibly ask for. And what’s more, the story resonates with us humans on a lonely planet in a not so lonely universe searching for answers in the stars. Must read/listen!

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Renan the book to AI Ethics

Revisado: 02-06-23

Extremely well read. The performance was top notch. I tried reading it directly but the author drones on about this idealized ethos of life that are possibly revolutionary or hypotheticals that may never happen. But what is really really fascinating is chapter 8 Consciousness. If this book was really focused on the technology of AI then this would be chapter 2 or three. Then the author would use the remainder of the book to breakdown how we cobble together all the system I and II components. But alas, no. ChatGPT would be 3 or 4 years after the writing of this book. Maybe it’s existence brought more attention to the space. I recommend reading but skip ahead after you hear the same sentence twice.

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The Bumpy Story of DNA Discovery

Revisado: 01-28-23

The Story reads as if told by my grandfather. The bumpy start to capture the main characters was sometimes hard to follow. But once he got going, 3/4 through the book, the race unfolded. And the rest was they say is history.

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An amazing Experience

Revisado: 10-21-22

I’ve read a few books on Genetics. But actually listening to the story being told from a historic and almost adventurous narrative is a whole new experience. The Gene is a wonderful memoir on the history of man’s search for identity. It’s a mosaic, a classic tapestry of historic events culminating at the door step of a technological revolution. It’s Bikini Atol days before the atomic bomb. Thank you for such an eye opening lesson on biology of all things.

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Great book! Amazing Prescriptions

Revisado: 06-11-22

I know nothing about marketing. But I do know quite a bit about technology and product development. This is the first time I’ve ever heard them intermixed in such a clear prescriptive manner. Everything point by Moore made reflected a major time in my career so I think there must be truth to this! I’m looking forward to applying these techniques in my chasm crossing!

The narrator was a bit too nasally for my linking. It too me much longer to get through the audio book than it did to get through reading the real book. I think the power of the message was my driving force to finish.

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Powerfully read, Wonderfully Told

Revisado: 11-29-21

Very insightful and brutally honest. Black Privilege provides a wealth of knowledge to any background. He’s right success in life comes from belief in God and hard work. There are few shortcuts. And what time love most about this book is the honest reality of failure as a catalyst to your next move. It’s the birthplace for reflection and personal responsibility. Charlamagne really hit that point well.

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Strong Start Crappy Finish - Read Only Half

Revisado: 06-23-21

This author(a) bias is really annoying especially when interleaving Enron as a cautionary tail. I would have rated it higher for the early content as he describes the origin of the company. The historic lessons learned from the early Phoenicians, the Italians, etc are really well written. But each example lacks much depth. Once he start going deeper into a subject, he’s off again. There’s little reflection in this book. Each discussion is written totally independently of the next subject. It’s like the multiple authors of this book didn’t read each other’s work. At times it reads like a bullet point on historic events. At times like a well thought out essay. But less often. The author provides little insight to the modern era, eg Jack Welch’s GE or Drexel Burnem Lambert. It was really not worth mentioning. This goes for the latter 1/3rd of the book. It was totally not relevant. I think he should have stopped at the oil Barron’s or at best explain how the use of Junk Bonds was a new structure that would lead to either the strengthening of modern corporate theory or not. Honestly, he should have just summed the modern era up with management consulting as a digest on how the school of thought in business is consolidated. But even that is a major deviation from the premise. This isn’t a management book. I thought it was a treatise on the idea of the corporation. If this book is re-written, cut out the last half and start a discussion on DAOs instead as a global concept for a corporation. Read the first 1/2 and stop. The rest sucks.

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