Ian Smith

Awesome

Revisado: 02-11-21

Best narrated book I’ve ever heard. Felt like a conversation. The book is full of wisdom, insight and laughter. Highly recommend.

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Brilliant as always

Revisado: 07-25-19

I’m a huge fan of Jordan Peterson. Just about all of the book felt applicable to me - almost as if I were having an in-person conversation. The narration is natural and doesn’t feel as if it’s being read.

I really enjoyed the level of candor and honesty. And buts of humor sprinkled here and there.

The book is full of a lot of hard truths you don’t want to admit to yourself, but know you should embrace.

My only dislike is he made me feel emotionally attached to lobsters. Now I’m not sure I can eat them anymore ;)

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Overall Good

Revisado: 03-22-19

I’ve enjoyed all of Dr. Harari’s books. This was a bit scattered and lacked a cohesive narrative compared to the other books, but was still great nonetheless.

As always, there’s some great humor. I’m not sure if he intends it or not, but the no-BS callout of reality in the British accent had me laughing out loud throughout the book.

It was good to get insight into Dr. Harari’s life and opinions vs the other books.

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Decent

Revisado: 01-25-19

It’s confusing and frustrating as a parent to listen to parenting advice. This book (as it admits) is counter to other parenting techniques I’ve read. Specifically around corporal punishment. The story and narration were decent. The podcast type inject toward the beginning was kind of weird. The music was a bit distracting. And the author was often self-congratulatory and self-referencing. But in spite of that, the overall message of respect, love and letting go are solid.

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Informative

Revisado: 01-02-19

Very well done with plenty of concrete, memorable examples. This was full of things I didn’t know I didn’t know. I live in San Antonio and am a long time Spurs fan, but never realized everything Pop did to make the team so successful.

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Good info, a bit dry

Revisado: 12-07-18

I did learn a lot like considering IP, organizational structures, processes, etc. that you may not traditionally associate with things like GDP.

Overall good info, but lacks any kind of story and could be abbreviated a bit. Was mainly a blast of academic speak about intangibles.

I read this because of the narrator Derek Perkins on Yuval Harari’s books, but that didn’t help much on this one.

I guess the takeaway is a more educated perspective on how to influence companies and politics to drive a better economy for the future based upon our current economic environment and trajectory.

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Pretty good

Revisado: 09-16-18

Yuval is really bright and writes compelling books. He obviously knows his history among many other things. This is definitely thought-provoking and worth reading.

My main light criticisms are that this book is somewhat repetitive from his last and could use a stronger cohesive narrative. Things feel a bit pieced together.

I suggest Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark if you’re looking to get into something a bit more tangible for AI and future of humanity scenarios.

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Good content, awful narrator

Revisado: 06-28-18

I really enjoyed the content of this book, but good grief the narrator sounds obnoxious. Luckily the book isn’t too long and I was able to power through it.

I’m a newb on Greek philosophy, so this was a nice intro for a dummy.

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Good overview of western Buddhism

Revisado: 06-28-18

The book had really good content and was a nice overview of western Buddhism and how it compares and contrasts to various flavors. The book got me to think of essence of people / things and emotions in a new light.

While the narrator was okay, he didn’t match what I’d imagine the author really sounds like. The narrator sounds like someone with a soft, smooth voice facilitating a meditation vs more informative with a little more emotion.

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Thought provoking

Revisado: 04-23-18

Wow - this book is amazing. It takes a lot of bits of information that you already know or kind of know and creates substantial meaning and new perspective. The book is relatively matter of fact and somewhat inherently dark - especially toward the latter portion. Yet there are a few moments where it is quite humorous and made even more funny because the narrator reads it in a matter-of-fact British accent. His re-writing of the US constitution to be more logical and equal had me laughing out loud. The book gets you to realize how beautiful yet horrible we are as human beings. The last sentence of the book was one of the best I’ve heard. I highly recommend this book.

This book IMO would be paired nicely with Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark. They cover very similar content for ethical dilemmas and probing us to decide what we want the fate of humans to be.

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