Howard

Tremendous insight into humanity via his life

Revisado: 04-10-25

Best book ever on the psychology of the collective unconscious by hearing his internal views on life itself and his interactions with

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Relevant today!

Revisado: 03-10-25 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Wonderful narrator and full story arc adventure for the behind the scenes narrative of Corona, mixed with a moving military tale of the true events of the New York and New Jersey campaign in the 1776 Revolution.

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Fantastic

Revisado: 01-22-25

Tiny bit more socialism than I prefer but awesome book and writer and I love Finnish culture. Great vibe. Can’t recommend enough. I agree with almost everything and found it to be spiritually uplifting as well. I want to learn more about Finland!

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While interesting and entertaining, it’s an apology for top-down society

Revisado: 01-26-22

I enjoyed this book and thinking about the cycles of empires, essentially the main point is that the US is in decline and China is ascending. I have no doubt that this is true, but one should realize that while an honest work, this book is in the author’s (and his class’s) interest, and not in the interest of the average citizen. By this I mean that as a billionaire hedge fund leader and advisor to politicians, he favors a top down strategy of planning, as favored by The oligarchies that have ruled China, as he and his heirs are very clearly at the very top of the food chain. He thinks a wealth distribution in the US and maybe China too is in order, yet non ironically, his stated goal is to protect his own and clients wealth by anticipating change and disaster, thus hypocritically recommending wealth redistribution for everyone but essentially himself. He lacks the insight to see this, claiming that because his wife works with poor communities he understands the wealth inequity in the us, but by using a prediction model, he can anticipate this and personally avoid the revolution. This may be the agreed upon tactic for the hedge fund types and highest politicians is to feign obedience to the new world order of masks and equity while essentially improving their own position in the top down order, and ensuring his heirs don’t mistakenly miss out on the growing Chinese market, regardless of the unethical tactics used to achieve massive growth. He is the classic linear successful business guy that I meet not infrequently that thinks that by making charts they can predict the world when he “triangulated” with the “best” and “smartest” people in their fields. The best and “smartest” are usually the most conventional and hierarchy oriented. For example he would have spoken to government appointee Samuel Langley in 1900 to learn about flight instead of Wilbur and Orville (nobodies), and probably would have gotten his prediction backwards. He predicts the same with medicine…he predicts AI, robotic surgery and genome manipulation are the future, the same bull that all of the VC people and government officials and grant awardees talk about, but of course these things are just scientism versions of the same useless hierarchy medical culture but higher tech sounding and spouted by the “best and smartest”. *Most importantly, these types do not understand that it is the freedom of the bottom up culture like the United sTates that permits nobodies to innovate freely and find the next solution that businessmen trying to protect their fortunes and rise in the hierarchy can never see. I can’t see the future either, but the future is not in more government planning and grants that fund scientism like usual, but in the tinkerers like in Matt Ridleys books. The conventional ism from this work that assumes America will lose and technological and possibly military war with China using extensions of existing paradigms, and fails to see that top down thinking like his own self interest works in the short term, but in the long term fails even though it seems more efficient. Being in a totalitarian state is also inhuman and unpleasant so forgetting inter country competition, I say no thanks to people like Dalio, Biden or Xi planning my life and punishing me for not following social norms. We must choose the freedom and allow our children the freedom to think and play and be creative, not micromanage and suppress them into drones that make the state more competitive. Dalio could redistribute his own wealth to the poor and get a job at Huawei. I bet he won’t like it as much the. Working to make China or the US more competitive. And from my reading of history, the British invited the US to be the senior imperial state after ww2 and we’re quite relieved to pass the buck, no longer having to police the world. No war between powers there. I love how he self promotes how he obtained useless masks for the state of Connecticut thanks to the generosity of China not realizing that he is the actual compromised agent of deception (unbeknownst to himself) that manipulated the American public into accepting masks lockdowns and vaccine division as a form of hobbling US innovation. He played right into the hands of his Chinese handlers who probably laugh at his respect for experts. Finally this book is an attempt to secure top down policies in the US, while recommending a form of wealth redistribution that is least painful for his own elite class. They look for stability from the poorest masses by ceding symbolic nonsense to preserve and increase their own power at the expense of middle class freedom and the true engine of American greatness that is not at all affected by Chinese top down efficiency any more than the same people predicted American failure during the Japanese electronics boom. America will only fail if we allow self interested billionaires like Dalio Or Gates or Zuckerberg influence policy that destroys the middle class and their freedom to rise and express opinions. The linear thinking sounds reasonable but is manipulation and serves the authors purpose, not yours and not the majority of Americans who enjoy free will, as that is the enjoyable aspect of life, not hearing that your country has the highest gdp.

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Amazing

Revisado: 10-29-21

I couldn’t believe how good this was even though was written quite some time ago but is SO relevant.

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Amazing book

Revisado: 06-19-16

This book tape was well read and covered the greatest test flight ever and demonstrates that the early shuttle pilots are the direct descendants of the Chuck Yeager era test-pilots.

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