Evan

How an extreme extrovert marketer sees the world

Revisado: 06-15-24

Tons of name dropping. Totally out of touch with the average person. "I know the CEO of Sony but he didn't return my email so I met up with this other CEO I know who does business with Sony... Also, always take first class flights so you can take a chance on talking to an important person over the first class meal."

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Generic circular information

Revisado: 02-13-24

Sounds like a broken record of finance focused fortune cookie level advice... if you don't have time you need to make time, if you don't have money figure out where you can save money, do your 10% entrepreneurial work during your regular work hours but prioritize your job so you don't get fired... Just spend the time you would have used listening to this book to move forward with an idea.

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Mostly "look how right I was"

Revisado: 08-29-23

Also, "look at everybody else's mistakes". Very little practical, useful info. To write a good strategy should be 1. Diagnosis (problem statement), 2. Policies (choose/trade this for that), 3. Actions you'll take to get there. There, I just saved you a few hours.

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One big advertisement

Revisado: 08-13-23

All in it will cost you $80K+ to get your book out there. The author is happy to take your money to get it done by her company.

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Complete Drivel

Revisado: 06-01-23

Uninteresting. Lack of character development. Way too focused on stats over content especially for an audiobook.

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Everything interesting from book 1 is gone

Revisado: 05-29-23

Everything interesting from the first book is undone - doesn't use the skills he's learned other than to acknowledge them and conveniently get out of a curve the writer painted himself into, debuffs from being a criminal that would have added drama and required intelligent thinking from the main character to overcome are wiped away without reason, character is overly lucky in finding quests, items, people and creatures that teams of higher level players have actively searched for. Juvenile writing. Minor to moderate misogynistic tone throughout and stolen kiss instead of writing a good romantic arc. Does nothing to expand the story arc from outside the game either, why was he set up for the crime, who was the girl that set him up, for what purpose, and then why give him special treatment? Story was hard to follow at times and convoluted by the end instead of just having a few interesting twists. Would have been much better if the story, skills, quests, and characters were fewer in number but more thought out.

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Entertaining but unfocused

Revisado: 05-01-23

Overall good, entertaining story. Final few chapters have nothing to do with the rest of the book. Those are more of a side story.

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Narration sub-par. Wild claims, false statements.

Revisado: 10-11-22

It's an interesting listen and I was able to take 1 or 2 takeaways that I might use. He does say upfront that he's not an expert. Well that's definitely true. When the content got to video games, he says that violent games cause violence in children. There have been multiple studies done on this which have proven that there is no correlation between video game violence and real world violence. I can't help but wonder what other debunked or preposterous things the author claims as fact. Also, the reader speaks with all the charm of a weevil crawling in your ear and it's all I can do to keep from turning it off not to have to hear him talk.

Edit: Even worse than I originally thought. As I continued listening there were many incorrect statements and wild claims. I finally had enough when the author claimed the Challenger explosion was from a lack of sleep rather than the faulty O-Rings. The fault was actually well known but ignored despite refusals to sign off due to safety concerns.

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All crust no sandwich

Revisado: 07-24-22

I listened through about half the book. It was all talk about a story that could be great but that it never actually got to telling. Everything just seemed like it was setting something else up that never came. After half the book I just wasn't willing to listen to any more time wasting exposition.

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