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Jesus is right, Buddha is wrong, I guess?

Revisado: 11-29-22

I had hoped for a less biased fictional dialogue, perhaps two differing but equal points of view. I did not get that.

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Better in print and needs to be shorter

Revisado: 09-25-22

I found my way to this book via Grant Williams and I’ll certainly apply the constraints (not being subject to preferences) however I found myself referring to charts and images so often that I believe this would be better in print.

Further, there was some waffle and repetition and would have preferred that time used to demonstrate more examples of practical application.

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A helpful analogy that compliments design work

Revisado: 07-29-22

A cousin to ‘All the world’s a stage’ I found this book helpful and credible. The front stage and back stage analogies are ones I use in design work and could be applied to most fields.

I hate to say it was a little repetitive, but it was, chapter 4 Discrepant Roles and 6 The Art of Impression Management were unnecessary for me.

In the Conclusion there was just a hint of something I wish he elaborated on, when people act a role but forget and can’t seem to find their way back to an authentic self. I wanted more on that.

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Love the musician, not the author

Revisado: 07-21-22

The story is meh. Needs more character depth and better editing. But the real problem is that it needed to narrated by Kinky F, that would’ve made it a better performance for me.

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So much more than I expected

Revisado: 07-11-22

I’m a layperson in these woods and I expected to learn about fungi and biological networks. I did.

I also got a little tree-centred history, sociology, poetry and travel. Woot!

Narration was on point.

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More about the tragedy than the overcoming

Revisado: 07-06-22

There is a lot of life in this memoir and I felt like nothing was left out.

But the cycle of abuse was frustrating for me to read as I just could not understand, or relate to, why the author kept putting herself in harms way, physically and psychologically.

I appreciated inclusion of opportunities for help that she declined along the way, and there is
resolution at the very end, but it was a long road to get there.

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Not the psychosocial insight I was hoping for

Revisado: 07-02-22

I was hoping to understand how a group of ‘ordinary’ people slipped, or were pushed, into depravity.

For some insight to that, I could have saved 9 hours and just skipped to chapter 18, However, I didn’t.

Most of the book was an almost ‘administrative’ account of killing. Who did what and where but very little why. Chapter 18 is about an hour long and does provide a little insight.

Clearly well researched, this book had compassion but very little humanity.

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Needs a whiteboard

Revisado: 11-28-20

The content of this book might be academically superb, but I’ll never know because half way through I just can’t waste any more time on it.

It’s a ‘waste’ not because the content, but trying to follow along with continuous date references, numerical values and dry narrative (there’s no ‘story’) is impossible in audio form.

It’s my fault because I’m trying to learn about economic history while washing my car, I asked too much.

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Important and meaningful but a little repetitive

Revisado: 01-24-20

I’m 42 and work at the intersection of digital tech and human-centred design. I found this book resonated with concerns I hold but didn’t have the words/concepts to articulate, until now.

I wish more of the book was given to Shoshana’s tangential insights or even some stories from the field, or made shorter. The third quarter could have been skipped, ‘I get it already’ unless of course, I think I did, but didn’t :)

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