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Boring and facile, like the average book of its ilk. These are designed to sell consulting services, after all. It’s not wrong, it’s just a lot of words to wrestle with intangible questions... so it’s not right either. The BMW anecdotes were interesting.
414 pages : 20 cm
Sprawling, hard to follow, lots of “who is this again, where is this, and why does it matter?” Just enough thread to keep me in to the end, but I’m not picking up the next one.
Tough to follow, feels like it’s doing lots of info dump and piece moving. I’m still going to continue the series.
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on …
Enjoyable page turner with an interesting setting and a nifty twist
Lightweight rehash of an idea from Venkatesh Rao’s Tempo. Not bad or wrong, just thin.
Emily St. John Mandel: The Glass Hotel (Hardcover, 2020, Knopf)
Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …
Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone …
A stand-alone adventure set in the world of Ancillary Justice. Ingray has just one chance to secure the status she …
The payoff is there, but it’s a hell of a challenging takeoff, and takes half of its length before things start to work.
The Cruel Sea is a 1951 novel by Nicholas Monsarrat. It follows the lives of a group of Royal Navy …
