I read this because Walter Isaacson said it was his favorite book. It started off great and I really appreciate this book, but I fount it hard to get I read this because Walter Isaacson said it was his favorite book. It started off great and I really appreciate this book, but I fount it hard to get through. Can I give something four stars if it was a real pain to read? Maybe I will read it again one day and up the rating.... the overarching theme of this book is very interesting and thought provoking, and some of the passages are really amusing. That being said, just because the concept is good the execution still has to be there, and for me it just wasn't this time around....more
I will continue to read Walter Isaacson's books since they are so well written and utterly consumable. I feel he generally strives to paint an accuratI will continue to read Walter Isaacson's books since they are so well written and utterly consumable. I feel he generally strives to paint an accurate and reasonably objective portrait of his subjects. In this case, he doesn't pretend to understand elon's dramatic shift to the right (covid? his dad's kinda crazy?) but he does highlight the inherent contradictions of things elon tweets and things elon does. There is definitely a compelling story in how he became the richest man on earth doing stuff no one else would touch with a ten foot pole, but he's also a flawed human like all of us not a super genius in all things like he may want us to believe. Isaacson isn't writing to psychoanalyze, but there is plenty here to do that on your own....more
i meaaaan it is almost a 5 star book. my 2nd favorite murakami [kafka on the shore] for sure. he's really refined his writing here and the story is jui meaaaan it is almost a 5 star book. my 2nd favorite murakami [kafka on the shore] for sure. he's really refined his writing here and the story is just so good, so consuming, and so thought-provoking. i am finding that endings are really hard to nail in basically any book. as is typical with murakami, he's not gonna wrap everything up in a tidy bow in the last few pages, but the story does come to it's logical end. i just find that logical end to be a bit....meh. but i was totally wrapped up in the first 5/6 of it....more
eh it was ok. i didn't quite finish it. overall i didn't find it to have deep insights into carlin himself, i just found it going through the motions eh it was ok. i didn't quite finish it. overall i didn't find it to have deep insights into carlin himself, i just found it going through the motions of describing one part of life to the next. what i did find fascinating was the state of censorship in the US back then....more
As the first management book I've read in a while it was a great place to start. It has direct, actionable insights on how to initiate structured goalAs the first management book I've read in a while it was a great place to start. It has direct, actionable insights on how to initiate structured goal setting in your organization. While it is not easy to effectively implement, it defines success clearly. It seems to be a logical development building of the structured goal setting of OKRs, further refining how to make goals actionable and understand what specific things will get you there....more
I like Kurt Eichenwald. Nobody recounts corporate shenanigans as consistently well as Kurt. This one's a doozy, and still good even though I saw the mI like Kurt Eichenwald. Nobody recounts corporate shenanigans as consistently well as Kurt. This one's a doozy, and still good even though I saw the movie like a decade ago. I'ma read the rest of this guy's books at some point....more
I was enthused after the intro. He said this was a complex topic, and that the book was not a straight-forward case for vegetarianism, even though thaI was enthused after the intro. He said this was a complex topic, and that the book was not a straight-forward case for vegetarianism, even though that's what he assumed it would be when he started writing it. He said there were farms raising animals for food doing good things. He said a lot of people already know there's something wrong with big factory farms.
This all made me think I was going to read something thoughtful and compelling about our relationship with domesticated animals. Nope, more than halfway through it has been a pretty straightforward string of facts about how factory farms are torture houses. It was obvious he wrote this book to preach to the choir when he said, in passing amidst the torture facts, that hunting your own food to justify eating animals is silly because you wouldn't kill a person in order to understand if it's right or wrong.
I guess this could just be a case of mistaken expectations. I bought the book based on reading the back cover - which did not summarize it as "why factory farming is bad". If you are looking for objective or philosophical arguments for (or against) eating animals, as I was, you will have to look elsewhere. I haven't read too many books on this subject, but I got infinitely more value out of Yuval Harari's thoughts on consciousness in Homo Deus. ...more
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