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Wasted listen

Revisado: 06-17-23

This is the most basic of books. If you understand the best time to save was yesterday, passive income is good, and don’t be a quitter, save yourself the time.

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Don’t read, there’s very little here.

Revisado: 04-30-23

The premise of the story was solid. Mysterious crimes occurring in a sleepy Florida town; by the book FBI Agents and a relaxed deputy have to partner to solve the crimes. That’s more or less where the good parts of the book end.

There actual mystery receives little attention. The deputy is able to derail any meaningful work by the FBI Agents by stalling them at his favorite restaurant. Each time they eat there they fixate on how the food is better than anything anyone had before. There is more detail spent on the flavors and perfection of each meal than the crimes committee. While both the readers and Agents are distracted by the authors fixation on food, various townspeople follow the deputies his hunches to solve the crime.

The author spends more time focusing on the race and dress/attractiveness of characters than their contribution to the case itself. He had a weird fixation with a “beautiful innocent doe” of a girl who was blinded by the criminal. The FBI agent that receives the most attention is a young girl of Japanese descent, who is not surprisingly a math whiz that wants to fit in and isn’t interested in small talk. Because she is a love interest of the protagonist, she’s portrayed as the only FBI agents who isn’t completely inept. The other two are more focused on arresting locals for small crimes than they are at solving the crime itself.

This book appears to be a reflection of:
* the authors disdain of government
* the authors love of food
* the authors love of all things classic rock

If you don’t like the word woke and like a light mystery that focuses on culinary references and cultural references and narratives commonplace in the 80s this book is for you.

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Great read on dwindling generosity

Revisado: 02-04-23

The challenges facing the decline in trust in nonprofits, engagement with those organizations, and as a result, giving to what were once (and in some cases still are) institutions has negative societal repercussions far beyond the economic impact of the US nonprofit sector.
This artfully well crafted story of points to the reasons generosity as this nation has known it for years is declining. Michael, Nathan, and Brian highlight the painfully transactional nature that many givers feel whose gifts or net worth are not big enough for organizations to spend personal time building relationships. If you’re not a “major donor”, and even if you are, the most common form of communication is an ask for money. This compounded with for-profits more targeted communication strategies, the age of CSR, and nonprofit watchdogs fixated more on overhead than outcomes has created a crisis. They posture that the solution is radical connection; not entirely new the first step is to understand money follows a relationship. Christian Titus does a great job of making this an easy listen. Strongly recommend for any in the nonprofit fundraising space.

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Some good tips, a lot of bad ones

Revisado: 02-26-22

This book has some good practices but a lot of effort and emphasis is put into bad fundraising processes that don’t lead to sustainable revenue such as bake sales.

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Could have been 2 chapters

Revisado: 09-16-20

The book is good. He explains the value of earned income outside of your 9-5 and classic IRA and mutual fund investments. Most of the book is him repeating things and not progressing the story too far. Basic concepts are good but he could have done that in 2 hours with the 2 dad storyline.

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Not for adults

Revisado: 07-29-20

This was okay, it would have been better if I were in the target demographic of young adult interested in a quasi romance novel.

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A must read for the modern fundraiser

Revisado: 05-17-20

This lays the foundation for the way nonprofits should fundraise. It highlights the ways nonprofits should communicate with and more importantly listen to donors and connected individual that could become donors. In a series of stories Gabe lays out the ways that modern nonprofits are losing ground to for profits that offer social good benefits to consumers, primarily because of the hyper focus through which for profit companies pay attention to and communicate with their clients online. Gabe lays the plan out for determining the personas of your constituents and how to think about communicating with them. The time of most constituents and donors getting a virtually identical letter at the same time is gone, nonprofits that adapt to the responsive process will thrive, others will struggle to continue receiving similar levels of contributed revenue.

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Some okay sales techniques

Revisado: 01-12-20

This was a decent book if you have 2 hours to kill and 3 dollars to waste...if it’s more than that, don’t buy it. There are maybe 3 good takeaways and basic principles along with bad techniques. Do not recommend

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Good background

Revisado: 10-14-19

There’s a good background of what the First Nations in the US endured at the hands of colonists and the US as it matured as a nation. Parts of the book are shared out of order and much of the end focuses on US military activity abroad and some political theory. The thousands of years prior to colonization receive marginal attention, perhaps there isn’t that much known. It’s good to understand the plight of these peoples and how the genocide occurred. There’a extra that doesn’t seem terribly relevant to the history of First Nation States that the author expands on while identifying issues with the US

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Good reinforcement

Revisado: 10-09-19

If you’ve never listened to a book about how to prepare yourself and focus your energy, this is good. There is nothing groundbreaking here but it’s a good listen.

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