Mohammad M

Little information, lots of marketing

Revisado: 03-02-23

There is some useful information in this book, but it can be summarized in a few sentences (and it can be found in plenty of other places online). The rest is repetition and marketing for the entire "happiest baby" industry.

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Important subject, terrible book

Revisado: 04-30-22

Privacy, value of information, and legal frameworks for regulating collection, processing, and use of information are some of the most important discussions of our time. That's why I had high expectations of this book. Unfortunately, it's only a shallow book, full of hollow rhetorics, exaggerated narratives of what "evil" companies like Google and Facebook have done and will be doing to the humanity, and no real discussion of what is the best way forward in a world where we are surrounded by devices that continually capture and process information. Also, I didn't really get why the author is looking at these issues through the lens of capitalism. These problems are not specific to the capitalist system, and framing them under the title of "surveillance capitalism" is only to recycle old anti-capitalist rhetorics, which (valid or invalid) are not really informative about the subject of privacy and surveillance.

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Nothing useful here

Revisado: 04-17-22

Just a bunch of generic, pointless advice, and stupid statements like "the reason that 10% of the people control 90% of the money is that 90% of the people don't know investing" and "to get rich, you should think like a rich person".

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Get the book, not the audiobook

Revisado: 11-07-17

I really liked the contents of this book. It covers a number of linguistic adventures into the meaning of various food words and how they have evolved across different cultures. However, audiobook is not the best medium for the contents of this book. The book contains menus, recipes, and illustrations that do not translate well in audio format. On top of this, the narrator mispronounces several non-English words. I'm going to return this audiobook and the get the paper book instead.

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