Dan Collins

This was my second Vonnegut book. I had previously listened to "Mother Night". I did not like this one as much as Mother Night but I must admit that there is something about Vonnegut that brings your thoughts back to his odd tales. This is a book that keeps on giving because the listener feels strangely compelled to make sense of something that, I get the impression, the author never cared if it made sense.

Disclaimer: I am a software solutions engineer so my perspective on the topic of marketing might not be all that useful. I had trouble focusing on this book and the unfortunate business case examples were so dated that they tended to be the only thing that I can remember about it. But that is a little hyperbolic.

This book is useful for people like me especially in light of the software revolution that is sweeping the industries in the late 2010s. I believe that in listening to this book I have saved myself numerous heartaches in any future endeavor I might make in the software space.

When you tackle an enormous topic like this you get four stars from me without even blinking. I listened to this book on recommendation from Ray Dalio's Principles audiobook. You can see where the author has had an impact on Ray's thinking. I might have given this four or five stars on the story aspect but I found the author's strong anti religious stance to be off-putting and more importantly unnecessary. It did nothing but clutter an otherwise well put together and well stated point of view.

In this book, the author forces you to rethink what is an advantage and what is a disability. The business application of this concept is that the reader is emboldened to take on the Goliaths in their own arena of business. Because strengths, pushed to the extreme, can become weaknesses. Read on, David.

This Book is passably well done and the author does a decent job surveying a number of topics. If you are looking for a book about software development specifically, this is not your book. but if you are interested in a book that covers not only software development but marketing, real estate, stock market, investing, spirituality, Fitness, health, diet this is your book!

it is a pleasure to listen to somebody so excellent expound upon a topic that they know so well. But if you were looking for a book that takes a complex topic and makes it simple, this is not the book you were looking for. this is the second book I have listened to by this author and I have enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed the first. Which was quite a lot. I will also note that you do not need to listen to anything else to find this book enjoyable.

This book is made for those of us who Ray Dalio would say are looking for "another one of those". It isn't that history repeats itself. It is more that we have not changed all that much in all of recorded history. Call it a lack of options or a lack of creativity, the result is patterns that tend to manifest and repeat. This book explores those patterns juxtaposed against various frames of reference (like morality for instance).

This book did a fantastic job of canvasing the myriad players that had a part in the fate of Merrill Lynch. At times I found myself getting confused but the author does a good job of weaving a narrative that brings all the relevant story lines to a head at the right time. I especially liked the way the ending resolves the trajectory of some of the most colorful characters.

I was impressed with this book. It was unrelenting in the way it approached the future and diligent to chase every relevant technology rabbit. Like most books in this genre, it probably suffers a bit from being overly optimistic in how rapidly we will adopt technology. but the book makes a good point where our preferences will become less and less important and why.

This book is a decent overview of Ethereum and for anyone looking to get started into leveraging the Ethereum blockchain - it is a great place to start. The content would appeal to a moderately technical resource.

When the subtitle of a book is longer than "War and Peace" you shouldn't expect much by the way of a coherent message. This book is a loose collection of long essays on a variety of topics. Some of the content is pedantic but it is also true that I could see a non-techie listening to this and getting a lot out of it. I was least impressed with the "hacking" part but even that had value.