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William A. Kindorf IV

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Interesting “exposé” on McKinsey written with a political stance

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 02-01-25

It is an interesting discussion on some of the more seedy activities of McKinsey. One of my main issues with management consulting in general is it often work backwards from a solution the management team wants or the consultant believes they want. This gives the guise of an independent expert opinion which shields the management team from doing their job which is managing the business and making the tough decisions. In many ways, this book is no different. You can’t help but feel like the authors started with the premise that “McKinsey is bad” and worked backwards from there. The authors have a clear political bias which clouds some of the points they make about unsavory clients or conflicts of interest. It comes off far more as a “hit piece” than an independent critique. Nonetheless, I found the story interesting and it is thought provoking about the role of management consulting.

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A few interesting stories

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 04-06-24

I started this read with really no view on Swisher. I wasn’t all that familiar with her work other than being generally aware of her. The book starts with yet another cliched rant about Trump… he’s dangerous, dumb, racist, going to ruin democracy, etc. Thankfully she pivoted off that but she is clearly heavily influenced by her San Francisco politics which seems to jade a lot of her coverage. From that standpoint she’s really closer to Rachel Maddow than she is a true journalist. That said, I thought there were some interesting stories about the early days of tech and her experiences. She comes off as very smug throughout which is interesting given how much time she spends critiquing the arrogance of tech leaders. The bigger issue there is she seems to believe that her contributions to this tech ecosystem are on par with the leaders she covers. Don’t get it wrong, what she did was impressive. But splitting out to create your own content company is hardly on par with Jobs developing the IPhone, Musk sending rockets to Mars, Bezos building Amazon, etc. I started tuning out a bit when she described people as “evil”, “Satan”, “infantile”, “dangerous”… to name a few. It felt like lazy “journalism” closer to name calling than debating issues. And maybe that’s what this book is designed to be given the title. Either that or it helps gloss over some of the areas where she got it wrong over the years. Just reading this book alone makes her sound prescient about all things tech. All that said, I did find some interesting nuggets in here. I think that it could have been a lot more effective though if she put her politics and ego in the backseat because she ends up coming across as a combination of the smug tech leaders she criticizes and the all too common journalists that let their personal politics skew their coverage.

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“Horror” that actually made me think…

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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 12-22-23

All of these stories are extremely well-written and really none of them were a let down for me. The ambiguity in many of them added to the eerie, cold feeling. You could tell Tremblay was experimenting a bit but he never lost me. It was effective. All of these stories were unique and interesting.

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Great band - sleepy book

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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars
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3 out of 5 stars

Revisado: 10-13-23

To start, I love Bad Religion and have since I was a kid. So, of course, I was excited to read this. I did find a lot of the details of the early days of BR to be interesting. If you aren’t a big BR fan then you probably wouldn’t. Frankly I found a lot of the rest of the book to be pretty boring. Graffin wavers between self-deprecating and self-righteous. No dig on the band or Greg as a musician but I could probably leave the book.

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