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Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
- Duración: 13 h y 23 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 57,668
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50,569
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 50,462
In the spirit of Steve Jobs and Moneyball, Elon Musk is both an illuminating and authorized look at the extraordinary life of one of Silicon Valley's most exciting, unpredictable, and ambitious entrepreneurs - a real-life Tony Stark - and a fascinating exploration of the renewal of American invention and its new makers.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best of competence porn
- De Tristan en 08-20-16
- Elon Musk
- Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
- De: Ashlee Vance
- Narrado por: Fred Sanders
An amazing (and annoying) person
Revisado: 02-10-22
This book just popped up when I was looking for a good listen. I'm so glad it did. I spent hours yesterday and last night with it, and today I finished.
Some people love him, some can't stand him. But we have to admit he's changing our world. This book follows Elon from college to the present. After initial success in Silicon Valley, he invests everything into Tesla and despite the ups and downs, most automakers are offering electric or hybrid choices now. So he's making an impact.
While still struggling with the car factory day to day, he begins work on SpaceX. They build rockets one piece at a time. No buying parts from other companies. And they get the contract to take astronauts to the ISS.
He can be rude and mean, he will not take no for an answer, he expects his workers to finish jobs long before they possibly can. But he has hundreds who think the world of him. He brings out their best.
I really enjoyed it, as you can tell. I'm just not quite there on the whole Mars thing yet!
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The Four Tendencies
- The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,916
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,897
During her multi-book investigation into understanding human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question “How do I respond to expectations?” we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible, Repetitive, and Filled with Bad Advice
- De T. Hadnot en 03-08-18
- The Four Tendencies
- The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too)
- De: Gretchen Rubin
- Narrado por: Gretchen Rubin
What I Didn't Know
Revisado: 10-31-20
I was always pretty sure of who I was. I've lived a pretty good life. Though I've certainly made mistakes with my career, friendships, family, and life, I'm generally satisfied with most--make that some of my current life. So I took the tendancies quiz, thinking it would be like all the rest. Full of generalities and not much substance. But I was BLOWN AWAY by what I learned. So many times in my life I haven't understood the why of my choices. Thinking I was just different from everybody else. One concept in Gretchen's book changed me. She asked about not being certain if I could do something in the future for someone else. Well, I thought, not for certain. Because how would I know what I'd want to do that day? That was me. Beyond that, I couldn't even depend on doing something for myself! I'd stopped making important appointments because I might not feel like going to them that day. It might sound like just a lazy excuse, but that wasn't the case. I was a Rebel. I wish I'd known how to deal with others, and myself, years ago. This book is teaching me how, now. Highly recommend.
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