Amazon Customer

A fine example of a conspiracy theory

Revisado: 04-05-23

this book is an example of how to create the air of credibility to a piece of nonsense - since the genre is popular science, is ok to make the author this book's hero, and then assignment it by never saying "I" but rather use the 3rd person voice, mixing facts, opinions and feelings, all in the same tone. It also does not shy away from naming villains in order to make the narrative more compelling.
The use of professional jargon and name dropping is quite astounding, probably to confuse people outside of the field who do not have the tools to refute the claims (or know about the cherry picking of facts, that I assume happened).
it is not often that a book causes me to search for external confirmation, but this one did. it has just a tad too much of the martyr trope to seem trustworthy. when I did so, I was thankful for COVID that helped mark clearly the conspiracy theorists such as the authors

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

a small but interesting observation, a bit pompous

Revisado: 01-21-23

the book is doing a nice job of describing ownership and different ways on which it is part of an ongoing power struggle, it is to American-centric, and a bit shallow - now that we understand the rather ready to explain models of claiming ownership, what are we to do with it? it also jumps blindly between what I'll call "original ownership" to an owner selling some aspect of the resource and testing them both the same way

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

important topic, mostly inactionable

Revisado: 12-18-22

it's probably the sheer size of the problem that makes it like so, but while this book is claiming to be a call for action, there very little the regular people can do. the book is descriptive of the problem and sheds some light on the incentives that skew the industry the way it is, but it doesn't help picture an alternative to the current reality or how to get there without miracles.
it's important to read, mostly in hopes it would help pressure legislators and policy makers to do what's right.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

laudable goal, falls short on promise

Revisado: 11-03-22

the book tries to present a step-by-step to team building. it's nice and sounds convincing, but either it skips the "how" part, or ot is intended to audience with deep knowledge of this skills and processes. step titles make a good narrative, but as is, it lacks substance.
on the promise of being a guide to the frustrated manager, it fails entirely

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

a long pamphlet, zero value

Revisado: 07-28-22

it starts with a "check your privileges" list, and goes downhill from there. it's a book-sized manifesto with a lot of emotion and pathos, very little in terms of actionable information, or even a way to convince anyone who is not already bought in on the idea. it promotes a very strong group think mindset under the guise of pluralism.
"feminism" in this book seems to be defined as "everything that's good and inclusive", increasing the scope of this already out of focus book to even larger mess.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

lots of dreams, didn't learn much

Revisado: 05-20-22

this isn't an informative book, is well told, but not much else, would hope for more

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

compelling narrative, important topic

Revisado: 03-29-22

the relationship between power and corruption is a very important issue in our society deserving a thorough study. this book is a great first strong stone into it.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 1 persona

large claims, zero evidence

Revisado: 03-10-22

like "calling bullshit" teaches, grand claims require strong evidence, which the book doesn't even try to provide. the observations might be correct, but might be a nice fiction as well. the main sin is extrapolating from the case of a single, liberal democratic unopposed superpower to the claim that it must always be so.

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

esto le resultó útil a 2 personas

interesting idea, I don't buy the basic assumption

Revisado: 01-08-22

the main idea is that "deep work" will make a person happier and wealthier, for such a bold claim, not enough proof was provided before jumping to the "how"

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña

interesting idea

Revisado: 08-09-21

I liked the main message and find out very interesting. the only problem is that it was very us oriented and figuring out where the problem is mainly there or worldwide was impossible

Has calificado esta reseña.

Reportaste esta reseña