Matthew Turco

Outstanding Counterpoint to the AI craze

Revisado: 05-30-24

If this guy is half right, AI will become the next dot bomb. And I can’t find evidence he’s wrong.

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A career’s worth of tips, tricks, and science

Revisado: 04-06-24

Barbara is a rock star in this arena. Although there’s a lot of overlap with her other books in science and techniques, the teacher angle is helpful in gaining a deeper understanding and practice of more efficient and effective learning.

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Better Than The Goal

Revisado: 03-01-24

The Goal is far more popular, but this is the book that introduces the thinking processes, which are more applicable, especially to those outside of production environments. However, like the goal, it doesn’t really tell you how to do the processes. It just serves as nice and introduction. But there are many other books that then get into the details.

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If you grew up in the 80s…this is such a treat

Revisado: 12-09-23

I’m a huge fan of Gary Gulman, so I was really excited about this book. I fully appreciate that this is not the same as his normal comedy act (in fact, almost none of the jokes from his comedy tour are contained in the book and vice versa). But the wit is still present throughout, and the descriptions and references are priceless. 

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Skip to the last two chapters

Revisado: 01-07-23

Most of the book was made up of stories and anecdotes that may or may not interest you depending on your age or whether you enjoy the behind the scenes takes on old nonfiction articles.

But the most useful advice really does start until the second to last chapter.

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Great content in desperate need of abridgment

Revisado: 09-06-19

The author is an outstanding Harvard professor and the thesis is a great counter-argument to the strongly held belief in portable talent—especially in the modern ‘knowledge work’ world. More importantly, it makes a very compelling case for building deep developmental systems and a learning culture rather than over-relying on hiring skills (which is not only expensive, but it still much more of an art than a science).

However, the book itself is a bit dry and there's a lot of "inside baseball" when it comes to the background stories of the investment banking analyst industry. The individual stories were fairly engaging, but listening to all of the permutations and considerations they went through for this study made me very appreciative of the 1.75x speed in the Audible app.

In other words, a lot of it reads like a more elaborate version of an academic paper than a book. Rarely do I wish that a book were abridged. But this one would probably find a much wider audience with an abridgment…focusing on the conclusions, which were valuable.

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This is how history should be taught

Revisado: 05-20-17

This is how history should be taught. Rather than starting from the beginning of civilization and boring the students through chapters and months of ancient tribes, wars, and political facts and figures, this book starts with what we take for granted today and it works it way backward to see all of the people, places, and circumstances that caused it to be. Informative and surprisingly entertaining.

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Nostalgic value

Revisado: 08-17-15

I found this surprisingly enjoyable, although probably more so because I am a former musician and it gave me a nice shot of nostalgia while teaching me a few things I wish I knew 25 years ago.

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Worth a listen

Revisado: 08-17-15

This was a good book to listen to at 1.5 or 2x speed. There are legitimate nuggets buried in some overly detailed
stories.

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