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Revisado: 02-25-25

I couldn’t get past the change of readers and that robotic lady after chapter 1. Just because it’s a book about AI doesn’t meant you should let AI do all the work. I thought professors didn’t let their students use Wikipedia or ChatGPT in their work, only for them to use it?

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Great overview of AI and its pitfalls

Revisado: 12-08-24

As someone who works in this field, I thought this book offered a great balance between storytelling and summarising technical concepts. Author made great arguments, directly and indirectly, in how machines are too far from replacing us, or most of us anyway.

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Too academic - read Indistractable instead

Revisado: 10-17-24

That’s what you get when you give an academic a good idea: they try to study its implications on publishing. Then they try to explain it to you as if it was their idea. This book took a decently good idea and made it completely inapplicable in real world situations. Unless you are a professor interested in publishing more and have no life/married to a stay at home mom who takes care of real life while you’re in Deep Work.

Indistractable is a better book with the exact same theme, more actionable towards real life.

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Water has feelings, too

Revisado: 09-30-24

I wish the author said that he believes water has feelings (or emotions?) on the cover of the book. I wouldn’t have wasted 4 hours listening to a book only to figure out this guy believes in this nonsense. The first 2 chapters are engaging. Him mentioning published work in the difference between feelings and emotions was solid. Until he got to brain waves and water and nonsense you hear in Boulder hemp cafes. I’m a scientist. I couldn’t pay attention after chapter 3. What a waste of a good idea… first 2 chapters have some merit. Oh well.

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Don’t stress

Revisado: 09-16-24

But if you do, that’s okay. Pick up this book. It won’t solve your problems but it will point you to understanding that what you’re feeling is … human. A tour de force on the implication of stress in a host of pathological and psychological challenges (not disorders). I knew the author doesn’t have a solution to all these problems but, understanding the basis of stress, makes it less stressful. This is when it begins, this is when it ends. And that much is enough. Thinking you can solve it all, is stress.

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Drivel

Revisado: 08-05-24

More incoherent than a speech by Trump. Seems to be written by a random text generator primed with ADHD. The readers are more annoying than an out of tune banjo.

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Stick to your expertise, Dr. Neil

Revisado: 07-12-24

An average book with some fun information interspersed amongst drivel. Case in point. Chapter 7. Re the contrived experiment about gender: have people take their clothes off then repeat Neil’s classification guess game. Come on. You’re a scientist dude. Also, his attempt to show that democrats are as anti science as Republicans is proof that Neil is starting to have Joe Biden moments. Neil: the entire Republican Party is behind anti science policies, How can you compare that to having some liberals wearing tin hats and lighting up some candles at home?
How about his argument that there are no disabilities yet he later goes on to say: maybe it’s the “disabilities” that made some of these people (who we can’t call disabled) great at what they do. This book is full of contradictory statements. I’m disappointed.

This is an okay book with some great information but its quotable moments are marred by some unscientific hyperbolic nonsense. Stick to what you know Neil. Talk about what’s up there and not what’s down here. Leave it to the experts.

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Wash your hands

Revisado: 06-11-24

The first 2 sections of this book are fascinating. The last section is repetitive. This book reads more like a special edition of a scientific journal, which I was able to follow because of my background. I can imagine this is a harder read for the layman.

It is amusing that, after 9 hours of talking about the latest scientific laboratory experiments on aging done on animals and insects, the advice of the author is… wash your hands?! Come on. Where’s the evidence in that working for mice and monkeys? Suddenly book feels like a Reader’s Digest at the end.

Reader is too fast at times.

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Audible needs to produce more of these books

Revisado: 04-28-24

The world would be a lot less warm without the voice of Eddie Vedder. His music and character are inseparable and this becomes clearer in this audiobook. Great work.

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Apartheid 101

Revisado: 03-05-24

This book could and should be taught in schools one day when discussing colonialism, apartheid, slow ethnic migration and the many forms of oppression of an entire indigenous population can take.

I just wish this book was shortened as a lot of the historical details may not be of interest to the general population. The Palestinian cause requires better PR: a shorter more accessible book that the general audience can pick up and get introduced to the history of apartheid in Palestine. Otherwise this is a great resource.

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