Wandering but not lost

Awesome Academic History of VC Industry

Revisado: 01-23-24

The long history of venture capital, dating back to the early 1800 New England whaling vessels, the region’s early forays into textiles, and England’s attempts to avoid such technology transfer were fascinating. Learning how mid 1900s Boston & Wall Street venture capital migrated to San Francisco Bay Area was equally fascinating. A long arc of history.

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My only disappointment was …

Revisado: 10-06-23

… that Scott Adams did not narrate the book himself (grin^grin); although I was listening to the podcast episode, where he described why he gave up on doing his own narration.

Content was compelling enough that I also bought the paperback version.

While listening to the narration during my commute to/from work, I had the opportunity to literally reframe an event at work such that the stress melted away regarding the event. BRAVO !!!

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Outstanding - each chapter is a whipsaw with a human at the center

Revisado: 03-24-22

Each chapter has a third-world or rather developing world female resident (Indonesia, Congo, Amazon, etc) seeking a better life as the chapter’s bystander objectively harmed by their being denied high-density fuel energy source now rather than the someday over the rainbow luxury virtue signaling unreliable fuel source in the future.

Each chapter begins with “the myth” we heard before from the nightly news and the big-city newspapers; however, “the myth” is then punctured with “but none of that is true, the reality is ….” with copious chapter verse citations to DOT-GOV references debunking the environmental myths.

Sadly, the third world bystanders do not _ALL_ see an improvement in their living standards nor see an improvement in their local environmental health. Those that do are those who received energy from higher density reliable energy sources.

Solar & Wind, both backed by Natural Gas interests seeking profits from providing Natural Gas Electrical Power Plants, are not reliable and are more expensive and more harmful than just building an ordinary hydroelectric dam, an ordinary Natural Gas Electrical Power Plants, or an ordinary Nuclear Power Plant

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Fake News Completely Mischaracterized this Book

Revisado: 06-13-21

Strongly recommended read/listen. Years after publication, I finally read/listen to Amy’s book. Less a Rah-Rah we do it better and more a confessional to herself, husband, daughters and parents. Filled with all the typical troupes (eg teenage girl temper tantrum). Sadly, much like Antonio Martinez Garcia’s “Chaos Monkeys”, the obvious entertaining literary license evident throughout this book, will no doubt be used against Amy when she is appointed to the Court, public office, and/or a Board Seat.

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Advice to my younger self?

Revisado: 03-02-21

As a 55 year old who has perhaps reached a particular comfort level, I wish such multi-faceted advice as “Gorilla Mindset” had been a book for me to read at age 25 or even 35. I am certain I would have accelerated things. What a marvelous time to be alive, where the internet is literally changing everything far faster than change was occurring in 1980s & 1990s. Nothing Cernovich suggests is unreasonable; although, he should have provided more cautions with respect to weightlifting. Yes he said the perfunctory medical disclaimers; however, he should have suggested wannabe weekend warrior weightlifter get some professional coaching for a month or two to avoid common beginner injuries associated with the basic lifts (deadlift, bench, squat, press). His investing advice is sound: buy index funds, a wee-bit every month. I will be recommending this book to nephews & nieces.

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“Liar’s Poker” version of “HP Way”

Revisado: 07-19-20

Quibble with Antonio claim(?) that SiliconValley does not write its own history - HP co-founder Dave Packard wrote the autobiography of HP “The HP Way”; albeit without the sex drugs and alcohol described in “Chaos Monkeys”. Likewise Andy Grove wrote two books about SiliconValley - “High Output Management” and “Only the Paranoid Survive” (again without sex drugs and alcohol ☹️☹️☹️). Otherwise, an Antonio has written an outstanding autobiography of his hero’s journey from the mortgage meltdown wreckage of GoldmanSachs to the post-Election2016 myth busting of Facebook specifically and social media generally swinging the Election. Along the way, you will learn that Internet advertising is still in the shadow of direct Mail advertisers (eg crawl-space attic clean out contractors keep advertising and I keep saving their inserts ?!?!). Strongly recommend reading/listening if you have the startup, entrepreneur, venture capital, Angel investor, advertising, SaaS itch.

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Kinda like a Stanford MBA Evaluation of WW2

Revisado: 09-15-19

Victor’s book is an important and unique perspective on WW2, looking at it from a spreadsheet perspective, demonstrating that on Day-1 of WW2 that National Socialist Germany, its Fascist ally Italy, and its Militarist ally Japan literally had no path to victory, if one considered population sizes, Gross Domestic Product, and the like

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Word Salad

Revisado: 12-01-18

Book is a word salad of cryptocurrency concepts. As I read/listen to other George Gilder books I will quickly figure out if he’s a author picking up on trends decades before they burst through or just a better known author riding the Gartner hype cycle

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Awesome!!! Jonah “Pants” Goldberg hits it out of the park!!!

Revisado: 08-16-18

Awesome narration by Jonah himself, making clear that his voice is needed to narrate his earlier awesome book “Liberal 😀 Fascism”

Well worth the Audible purchase. Pondering buying 15 hard copies as Christmas presents ... if available as paperback (hint hint hint).

Good news for Trump Super Fans: his extensive criticism of “Cheeto”, with supporting evidence, is in the last two chapters (20 & 21). Until then he makes a compelling case against tribalism identity politics etc. His source material is in effect The Great Books supplemented by the historical commentary of the last 4000+ years (eg Churchill’s “History Of the English Speaking Peoples”). You will hit PAUSE and digest what he said/wrote. Compelling.

Bad News for Never Trumpers: Jonah’s last two chapters don’t make the compelling “Never Trump” case; although it’s far better than an unhinged TDS Max Boot “worse than Stalin” comparison. Argument needs refinement over multi day CSPAN seminar with Henry Olsen, Kurt Schlichter, and Jonah. A bartender serving adult beverages all day as arbitrator would be helpful.

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Awesome

Revisado: 07-07-18

Listening to Churchill’s “History Of English Speaking Peoples” has made me aware of both the origins of many aspects of the US Constitution and from where George RR Martin obtained 50% of his “Game of Thrones” content.

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