Michael F. Watson

Fascinating and Thorough

Revisado: 04-13-25

The book was fascinating in how it tied so many threads together. Unfortunately, towards the end it got political and tried to replace worship at the altar of science with worship of God. This greatly detracted from an otherwise solid book.

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Victim Ideology

Revisado: 08-21-23

There is good information in here. Unfortunately, it's buried in mind-numbing, woke rhetoric.

I kept hoping for science based guidance on interpreting ingredients. Yet so many of his discussions of a specific food or ingredient ended in, I think, or in my opinion.

Then there are the obligatory woke diatribes. We learn that Col. Sanders stole fried chicken from slaves. A terrible act of cultural appropriation. I'm pretty sure his fact checkers failed him here. The point is that the story has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the book.

The "interviews" are merely fillers, and the audio is terrible.

I hope the author follows up with a guide to interpreting ingredients to better understand food labeling that isn't steeped in woke politics.

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Very Technical

Revisado: 07-07-23

This is a well-done audio book covering a highly technical topic. The authors balance between theory and practice skewed toward theory. I would have preferred a few more concrete examples. Most examples were overly simplified.

That said, I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in learning more about the use of models in decision making.

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Excellent for Entrepreneurs

Revisado: 03-31-23

Great book! I enjoyed the historical context behind the products. Excellent information for entrepreneurs and leaders.

From my perspective, the use of expletives detracted from the message. If a leader can't communicate effectively without resorting to four letter words, he/she failed.

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Good Information Buried in Too Much Politics

Revisado: 01-12-23

The author should spend more time on how to win and less on why you can't.

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Wow! Finally Common Sense

Revisado: 12-11-22

Thank you for providing a resource to point my Elect family and friends to. Well written and read.

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Mandatory reading

Revisado: 10-01-22

Duke makes clear and compelling arguments for carefully dissecting both our failures and successes. She also provides several tools and frameworks for doing so. Well written and enjoyable.

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Couldn't Finish

Revisado: 08-01-21

There are probably some good ideas buried in here somewhere. But fundamentally the philosophy is about victimhood and the abdication of personal responsibility. I just couldn't listen to him say if you fail its not your fault. Well if it isn't mine whose is it?

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Great Information

Revisado: 02-07-21

The author does a good job underscoring the limitations of the algorithms currently in use at the tech giants. Most of his stories are entertaining to highlight his point.
Unfortunately, his left-wing bias shows through at every turn. From his perspective, half the Republicans in America and the folks on the right in the EU are radical racists, while the concept that the left has just as many nut jobs is unconscionable. His prerogative, he is the author, just odd from a book about bias.

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Enjoyable Story

Revisado: 07-16-20

Mandelbrot tells a good story about how his revolutionary ideas undermine conventional wisdom. More than likely your retirement plans are built on an unstable foundation, based on his ideas. I think he is right, I just don’t know how to take this information and improve my situation.

The audio quality is good except where it isn’t there are a handful of places where they recorded over corrections that were done poorly.

The PDF is poor quality, some pages are illegible. Inexcusable for what I paid for the book.

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