Adam Reinhardt

Probably more ground breaking in 2011

Revisado: 08-14-24

This book is wide ranging in topics and some are covered in better detail than others. Today there are better books covering each of the topics in this book better. I was also a put off by the authors dismissal of others work with very short statements that did little to seriously addressing the others persons work.

even with that there are topics and things to think about.

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95% Spy Thriller, 5% zombies....

Revisado: 07-05-24

While the summary says a combination of World War Z by Max Brooks and James Rollins’ Sigma Force Series, it is so heavily Sigma Force style I would barely consider it related to World War Z in comparison. I would have skipped the book if I knew so much more spy/military action than zombie.

Ray Porter did great as the narrator.

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Could have used an editor, may be a better movie

Revisado: 08-30-22

The book took way too long to get the end. For how smart the people in the book are supposed to be and how much time they spent covering the math/physics/science they made many foolish mistakes. Movies gloss over he details montages and that wold have made this better.

The science they cover/discuss is generally basic for undergraduates in college. If I wanted to learn science, there are many better topics that cover the science in better detail.

If I wanted humor/satire the I am Bob series has better satire.

There were some interesting concepts in the book and had the story not ended as well as it did, I would have rated lower.

I would liked the book better if they covered the story from more of the characters perspectives rather than such detail of the one character.

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Look elsewhere for horror

Revisado: 11-09-21

I was drawn in by the interesting concept and did not find the promise of what was possible given the concept.

The book did not draw me into the story, characters or raise the hairs on neck in the slightest.

The disturbing things that did happen in the book are more of human interactions that just were not needed for the plot to unfold.

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Good concept, poor execution

Revisado: 11-09-21

The concept of this school is interesting and could make an interesting movie/tv show if it immersed the reader in the world more.

The writing style is more a poorly edited memoir/after though of someone's diary. All actions have immediate and perfect understanding of why it happened and what others are thinking are told to the reader than shared in a way that invites you feel like you are there with the characters and imagine what may be happening. This matched what was in the sample, and I hoped that this was just the short cut to bring the reader up speed quickly at the start of the book. It turned out to be the style of the whole book.

The most interesting thing to happen was in the last couple minutes of the book which are there to get reader interested to read the next book. It was interesting enough that I will likely find a plot synopsis online and jump right to the answer, since I'm not as interested to spend the time on the journey to get there.

You may find a different conclusion than I did.

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Listen to the free 80 minute opening...

Revisado: 08-02-21

The publisher links a free the first 80 minutes. Listen to that and see if it's useful or may be see if you can find his TED talks. I skipped many chapters and sections as they became boring and tedious.

I found the author covered more about the things he learned than the process he describes. It's quite dull to hear about someone programming. It was also clear from the topics that he had a reasonable amount of knowledge on each of the topics from very related items and was not really a beginner in these topics. this is especially important since the most useful thing in his proces and hardest is figuring what things to learn in what order.

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Good information with terrible audio

Revisado: 08-02-21

The information is interesting and engaging.

The audio is just terrible. Part of it is the reverb of the recording room/poor mic and part sounds like low bit rate effects. The audio was so bad I almost stopped listening during the opening sections.

I'm glad I struggled through the first part and finished the book.

After a while the poor audio mostly fades into the back ground as I got engaged in the information being shared.

If the audio was better, I would listen to the book again.

The end of the book is abrupt with out a solid summary.

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A great collection of his conversations

Revisado: 05-31-21

I found Sam Harris through a podcast he was on and found his back ground and thoughts different, interesting and worth learning more about. This book collected conversations with several folks I respected and some I did not know so I wanted to learn more. This expanded my thoughts on the hard problem, AI, Zombies, the Matrix, race relations and more. A worthy listen that I would recommend.

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Design master maybe? master author no...

Revisado: 05-31-21

The design concepts may not changed, writing styles have greatly improved since he wrote his first edition of the book.

In each chapter, he spends time to tout his greatness and advertise his other books.

The book jumps around and does not stick with any topic long enough to give the reader useful information or the studies that back up the claims he makes. Most of his claims do have some backing if you read other books about behavioral economics. When you finish the book, you won't be left with concrete steps to be a better designer, but you will have some interesting quips and a list of his books recommended to you.

I also find his continual reminding us the problems of all other team members like engineers, markets, business person, project managers etc made me lose interest.

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Great performance, needs and editor

Revisado: 05-04-21

This book is way too long. Parts drag on way longer than needed, some main characters aren't that interesting. On the other hand just when you are ready to give up on the book, something interesting happens that keeps you listening for while. May be this is better as a regular book so that you can skim/skip large and uneventful happenings in this book.

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