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Terrible

Revisado: 12-18-23

This is a hodgepodge of very tactical sales advice. It’s a stew of bits that don’t really go well together. There’s very little strategy in here — for example, the book suggests being on every social platform, with no regard for the resources necessary to be effective with a tactic of being everywhere. This is a method for spreading resources very thin.

The writing is thin, as well. For example, the book has many examples of regurgitated info found via shallow web search, “according to Statista, here’s who is on Facebook in 2017” — it then burns up half a page spitting out demographic stats. Text us allocated to useless information such as “Facebook lets you upload a header photo. But take care that your image isn’t too large to upload.”

The pages on LinkedIn involve slowly listing the many LinkedIn features that a salesperson should use, but none if the features are described in any real detail, and the features that matter most aren’t described at all.

Written six or seven years ago, it’s all out of date now anyway. And the stuff that’s not out of date is terrible, for example: “use please and thank you in all of your communications,” “don’t use all caps in emails,” and “use subject lines of interest to your prospect.”

In short, pretty terrible use of time in 2024. Avoid.

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Brave and artful

Revisado: 09-05-23

I have a high bar for autobiography because it feels really difficult. The great authors somehow manage to anesthetize their own egos so that they can fully splay their insides open for the public, but they don’t anesthetize so much that their facility for writing beautiful sentences, threading a coherent narrative, or palpating the malignant masses they find within their vivisected lives with curiosity that feels both macabre and scientific. Some books I’ve loved in this genre include Westover’s Educated, McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died, and — until he turned out to be a total asshole — Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. Liftig’s book is up there with the best of them because it demonstrates (over and over) the bravery that autobiography requires in order to be great.

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What did I just read?

Revisado: 11-22-17

This is some next-level voodoo snake oil. I have never experienced a book like this. It twists the words of world thought leaders to make preposterous claims.

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Retro

Revisado: 11-11-17

Makes a fat joke about Oprah. Brags about hanging out with Trump associates. Some good advice, but more hits than misses.

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horrible narration

Revisado: 06-20-16

The poorly cast narrator mangled all Chinese words. Kind of a problem for a book about China. Book is excellent otherwise.

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Remember when you said, "when am I ever going to use this in real life?"

Revisado: 06-14-15

Simple plot. Man stuck on Mars tries to escape. But the joy of this book is in the glorious scientific detail that seems meticulous, detailed, and creative. It's like a really smart and entertaining MacGuyver got stuck on Mars.

Voice acting was quite good.

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Annoying narrator

Revisado: 07-09-13

Would you consider the audio edition of Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) to be better than the print version?

No -- I wouldn't consider this to be better than the print edition.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Minnie Goode?

Someone technical should have read this. Minnie at one point had to read an email that a protagonist received. The email used a common abbreviation for the word pixel: pxl. Minnie chose to read the word as "PEE EX EL." Very annoying. She should have known better.

Also, Minnie has an annoying "laugh" that is often inappropriate to the scene.

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