John Stanko

4 year old can’t get enough

Revisado: 11-26-22

My 4 year old son loves it. We’ve listened to it 3 times through on our car rides to school

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Good primer

Revisado: 09-16-21

A good list of things to consider and start working toward. As part of a business that is still under the original owner with a plan to become a “family business” a lot of it wasn’t really geared toward my situation as much as toward large family run corporations. Would have liked to go into detail on specially what corporate and legal structures to consider rather than just broad business types (partnership/distributed/etc.) and more on how to originally bring family in for the first time rather than just “think about taxes”.

Overall it was a good list of things to consider

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Fantastic

Revisado: 08-26-19

Great narrator. Great summary of everything we know of about why we do what we do. Neuroscience, endocrinology, pyschology, sociology, etc. Tons of studies referenced. Tons of dissecting competing scientific theory. It's long and some parts can get a little sense but wonderful overall. And for good measure, at the end, he destroys the notion of free will. So that's fun :)

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A “Read once a year forever” kind of book

Revisado: 07-19-18

Part one is an entertaining biography with a great style of focusing on his biggest mistakes and the lessons he learned from them. Part two is just a breakdown of how to approach reality to get accurate information. It feels like everyone needs this in today’s environment. Part 3 is how to use the part 2 principles business practices.

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The Encyclopedia of Barack Obama

Revisado: 11-26-17

As you may have assumed from the page count, there is a lot of information here. It sometimes reads more like an encyclopedia than a narrative. “Here is an event that happened, here are the 6 people that were involved, here is what each of them ate, here is what each of them commented on that event, etc.”
I give the author credit for the exhaustive research. Typically, the author only chimes in in his own voice with a subtle jab at Obama over a misstatement or something. The number of different accounts of Obama seem to (by law of averages) create an even handed representation of Barack. Only the last chapter (his presidency) gets a unanimously critical account.
This is the first Obama bio I have read. I assume there are better narratives and unique perspectives out there but it would be hard to beat the amount of information contained in this book. Overall I recommend it.

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Excellent writing. Excellent message. Excellent reading

Revisado: 10-13-17

The attitude of trying to understand each other and move forward is extremely important and extremely underrated. Van does an amazing job of delivering the message. The writing is enticing and the narrator is perfect.

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Great Book, Great performance

Revisado: 01-20-17

1) I think anyone in any type of management position (present or future) needs to read this. It should be required for leaders to understand this mindset.
2) their voices are insanely badass. But in all seriousness they do an amazing job.
3) I often struggle with whether to read the physical or audio version of a book I'm interested in.
This one is perfect for audio

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Have everyone you know read this.

Revisado: 08-10-16

Wonderfully researched. Incredibly informative. Given the current political climate in the US and over much of the world, everyone needs to read this book to understand the basic differences that make some conservative and some liberal rather than just yelling at each other. Pure science. I listened for political bias and I couldn't find any.

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