Jeff Berry

Feels like a missed opportunity

Revisado: 01-09-19

The content here is great - lots of interesting descriptions of aural phenomena. However, an audiobook feels like the perfect venue to actually include some of the field recordings the author describes. I want to hear the echo recording from the tower in Berlin or the sewers, or some of Chris Watson's Antarctic ice sounds, etc. I understand that to do so would increase the production cost, but it would really help this book out.

Unfortunately the narration on this one is pretty bad. The narrator uses the same prosodic inflection for every sentence, which is often distracting to the point of losing focus of what the reader is saying, and instead concentrating on the ridiculous way he reads it.

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Good intro to cognitive biases

Revisado: 01-06-15

This book has a ton of great information on cognitive biases written in an accessible and clear style. Kahneman isn't a Nobel prize winner and this work summarizes a lot of his clever research on behavior. The only downside to this book is that it has so much information, it starts to feel like reading a list about half way through. Also the text refers to a pdf file with figures that make listening in the car difficult to follow in some sections.

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