Andrew Cooke

Thought provoking and relatable

Revisado: 04-22-24

I've read or listened to books by others on resilience, living a whole life, etc. I've found them either preachy or angsty. This was neither. Instead I found value in every chapter. Brené's writing and reading were real, relatable, practical, and in the end, positive and encouraging. I will be recommending this listen to others.

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interesting but not amazing

Revisado: 10-04-23

There is definitely a story here, but it is not presented in an amazing way. In an attempt to add real world interest the author has clearly read and reused Facebook posts, X threads and LinkedIn profiles. This results in banality rather than human interest.
The narration was ok, but it's attempts to distinguish quotes from emails and chats from the rest of the narration resulted in feeling like they were shouting IN ALL CAPS. They were real quotes, but not how a person would read them.
Overall I persevered but was glad when it was over.

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Dated content, weird narration

Revisado: 11-05-22

There was some interesting content but many of the examples were dated (make sure it works on Blackberry). A lot of the recommendations are standard sales practice and there is a big focus on differentiating roles - SDR, AE, MRR. Maybe this was new when the book was written.

To confound things, the narration insisted on converting what must have been first person voice into third person, which made it stilted and was just annoying.

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Some gems in here, but don't expect coherence

Revisado: 05-23-19

I love Tony's work, and the core of this audio book is excellent. The performance is fine too. However the writing style is challenging to listen to. The back-to-back metaphors and verbal cliches make me cringe. The content feels like it was compiled from a bunch of blog posts so there is a lot of repetition, and a lack of structure. My advice? Get the physical book so you can bookmark the key bits and skim over the chaff.

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A few rays of light amongst the excess verbiage

Revisado: 01-07-19

I would recommend purchasing the print book or Kindle edition. This will let you skim read the excessive ego justification of part one, deal with the long and not very useful tables, and provide more helpful access to the useful instructions in part two.

The author clearly feels that all forerunners in the fields of design and entrepreneurship got it wrong. They spend the first part of the book justifying their position, and possibly their ego. The narrator did a great job of working through the excess words and pretentious language, particularly in the early chapters. The later part of the book is a mashup of much of the earlier work they disparage, reframed with new names.

There are some gems among this, or you could read The Lean Startup and learn Design Thinking and work much of this out for yourself.

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