Kindle Customer

Lesson: Macking on your customers is fine, employees no. Buh?

Revisado: 10-07-21

Highly disappointed in first storyteller. Apparently he saw no problem with hitting on customers?

Irony: 11.

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Fun and Informative Read/Listen

Revisado: 05-23-21

Overall, very enjoyable book. One nit regarding laptop PSUs: What is being described was rarely if ever •used• for that purpose. Laptops almost universally use a switch-mode PSU which is substantially more complex than the transformer + rectifier + inductor & capacitor design of a "classic" rectified DC supply covered in the book. Perhaps this could have been explained in the same manner as the CRT to Plasma/LCD/LED television evolution, in that switch-mode PSUs are lighter, more input-flexible/forgiving, etc… than their rectified-DC predecessors.

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Just one nit…

Revisado: 03-10-21

"… this fallen world." cannot be used as a drinking game prompt, you'll be rendered unconscious too quickly, in this fallen world.

But seriously, the trademark ending phrase gets really tiresome when listening (or reading) for more than a chapter or two at a stretch, in this fallen world.

Maybe it starts getting obvious how this might be a detriment to otherwise solid storytelling, in this fallen world?

If you're willing to look past that one fly in the ointment, in this fallen world, I think you'll enjoy the ride, in this fallen world.

:-)

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You know that "equal time for all ideas" fallacy?

Revisado: 12-29-20

Well, this book is unfortunately a textbook case.

Intermingled with interesting and what seem to be reasonably well researched tidbits are these bizarre leaps into illogicality. I listened all the way through out of quasi-morbid curiosity, hoping that perhaps, the next leap, would be the leap home. :-)

Also, pronunciation! Fungible! Nigiri! :-)

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Listen past the outro song...

Revisado: 08-14-20

You'll catch a memorably sweet remote link cameo by Barack and other family members! Buono!

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Good, with some gaps

Revisado: 11-12-17

I liked the book overall, but there are some gaps regarding liability, privacy, etc…which often come across as afterthoughts, and in a few places, outright flippant. An engagement contract with an employer as “client” won’t (legally) cover many of the actions he proposes to undertake against individual employees of that client.

The narrator also mispronounces a number of things (N M A P vs. ennmap, G U I vs. gooey, etc…) which can be a bit jarring.

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Had to stop before halfway, so bad.

Revisado: 05-01-17

I cannot recommend this book to anyone. Bizarre hypothesis after bizarre hypothesis supported by cherry-picked research references or sample size N=1, I made it a bit more than 3 chapters in and gave up.

Lots of "Here's a wild unsubstantiated hypothesis…", with a late "… but I could be wrong." buried pages later.

Really too bad, I quite liked a number of Mme. Grandin's other works, and didn't have these sorts of qualms with them. :-(

Voice actor (Mme. Gallo) made a valiant effort to take the work seriously, so props to her.

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