Hendrick Mcdonald

The best MBTI explanation. So informative.

Revisado: 08-26-24

The original and still the best explanation of the MBTI I’ve heard. I found it necessary to listen at 0.5x speed, word by word. The chapters are played out very logically, going step by step thru each part of the type indicator. It then considers their combinations. It repeats points but in a new context so you build on what was previously said. Then it goes thru the types as played out in marriage, work relationships, and child development and poor development. I learned a lot about the different aspects that a person may find most valuable: the practical, the possible, the outcome, and the value.

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Meh. Mostly anecdotal stories

Revisado: 10-14-23

I didn’t learn much from this. Most of the useful stuff is summed up pretty well in the last chapter. Chapter 16 was informative and 19 was nice but most of the rest seems like an investor listing out his investments and getting their CEOs to write a blurb for his book saying over and over OKRs are magical. I would have like more substance on when to set OKRs, a direct list of pitfalls…less fluff.

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A useful set of essays on lean practices

Revisado: 08-31-23

I enjoyed listening to the informal nature of this collection of essays online. There’s some repeating of phrases, but I think overall, that’s helpful. I found it instructive to hear the case examples and to hear the speaker. Repeat the need for observing issues firsthand and valuing the intelligence of the employee to help come up with a solution. The speaker comes off as very experienced, knowledgeable, and emotionally, intelligent, able to identify the pitfalls of human nature, and point those out so that we can work on ourselves to improve both the process, and ourselves on the way.

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Great ^^

Revisado: 03-03-23

A good book that goes through some of the thought patterns that could in Hibbett us from taking that one small next step towards improvement. The book 1st goes through every day. Examples of fixed mindset, then goes through different learned skills. From artistry to the sports world to the business world then it goes to parenting, and then in the bed with how to work towards addressing those areas of ourselves that are a fixed mindset importantly the speaker says that everyone is a mix of both.

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So good

Revisado: 02-10-23

Such a good book. Very actionable, very relevant. Gives examples both in business and relationships. Moved at a brisk pace. Excellent.

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Excellent

Revisado: 08-10-22

An excellent overview of how to positively engage teams while using Scrum. Scrum is present but honestly the lessons are applicable no matter what. Each chapter lists out ~5 principles it will focus on related to some topic or issue and then goes in detail thru each of those principles. Very well and orderly structured :).

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A Biography with the “Inside Baseball” of Cancer

Revisado: 07-19-20

This book is mostly a biography of a doctor who was the only one who understood and all the troubles he faced by those who did not have all the answers like he had all the answers all the time. Mostly a story of inside baseball, looking at the bureaucratic and political side of cancer research, with only about 1 hours worth of scientific content. The rest is all just ‘this person said this and that person said that, and they were wrong and I was right’ for 12 hours. Bleh. Awful and useless.

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Short, useful ending

Revisado: 05-20-20

Short, useful list of resources though at the end, but sparse on detail. Listened at 2.7 speed in about 3 hours, maybe less.

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Much History

Revisado: 02-28-20

Felt like more history than I expected, vs more biology. But I suppose for that reason it works fine for audio.

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A Play by Play of Earth

Revisado: 03-26-19

I find geology is not one of my favorite subjects but these lectures do a fine job of giving a play by play of mineral life, from the early universe to early earth to the start of life. The parts about life as a sort of evolved form of mineral evolution were the most interesting. Particularly the organolithotropes which mimicked earlier natural mineral processes to oxidize electrons as life represented a sort of ‘better energy catalyst’ which could the evolve with greater complexity given the available energy. Snowball earth was also fascinating and the oxidation events which formed new types of minerals. But there’s some parts that lagged to me. I suppose I was more interested in just the origins of life and a description of the eons, not necessarily the changes in rocks.

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