Mark Holden

Could have done without the divorce subplot

Revisado: 03-16-25

I'm here to learn how to best contribute to the goal of the company, not hear about the failing marriage of a failing plant manager and listen to his nagging inlaws. I got what I wanted, but I had to skip through a lot (sometimes whole chapters) of the wife.

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Read "Thinking Fast and Slow" instead.

Revisado: 03-06-25

Groundbreaking, in the sense that it's the first book where the author missed the point of his own book.
Not only is it a watered down version of Dr. Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow", but it also straw-mans standard economics to a degree that would make Stalin blush.
Instead of the making a point to educate people on their potential for irrationality and giving them the ability to make better decisions (for which Thinking Fast and Slow would be a better read), the author seems to be trying to convince the reader that he or she is incapable of doing so, and that the decisions are better left to the supposed adults in the room, to which the author adoringly refers to as "behavioral economists". It's pretty clear that he means the same central planners that brought so much prosperity to the Soviet Union.

The performance was fine other than the music playing over the beginning and end of each chapter so you have to guess what was being said.

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Hang in there until the end!

Revisado: 07-16-24

There were times during the book that the content was frustrating and depressing, and I wondered if there was even the possibility for an optimistic ending. I was not disappointed! As is turns out, the tide may be turning and there is hope!

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I came away with a different point of view

Revisado: 06-19-24

Well reasoned and backed up by plenty of evidence, but more importantly, this book exposes the warped moral standard of the greens in a way that I was really able to digest and has enabled me to be an advocate for fossil fuels rather than simply tolerate them.

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Amazing Story

Revisado: 07-09-21

Incredible insight into the DNA of SpaceX. I'm glad to now know the titans of the early days that made it possible.

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Heavy on claims, light on evidence

Revisado: 06-14-21

Take this with a grain of salt, as I am what the author so derisively refers to as a "Promethean Optimist", and "Libertarian".
One good thing about the book was a fair warning about ensuring individual freedom on off-Earth colonies.
The rest of the book was just claim after claim that nuclear weapons are space weapons (ok, we get it), and if asteroid orbits can be modified, the Earth will be destroyed. To top it off, if we expand into space, the trans-human boogeymen will come back to eliminate humanity.
The fatal flaw to the author's arguments are that for humanity to be a stay-at-home civilization, *everyone* needs to stay at home. China has already proven that they will not stay at home, even at the cost of dumping spent rocket stages on their own people. If we cede the ultimate high ground to a state that has demonstrated such disregard for individual rights and freedoms as the communist party, then we are already doomed.

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What can I do to make this a reality?

Revisado: 08-06-18

Start by reading this book. the later chapters have pragmatic approaches that everyone can take, from the billionaire tycoon, to the political leader, right down to the guy who has an interest, but has yet to aquire the means.

Robert Zubrin has a simple approach to getting to Mars within 10 years of any start date. He has also done a great deal of research in living on Mars for both exploration and colonization.

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