Kaarlis
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Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- By: Dr Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 46
Diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of eight, Dr Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An entertaining, enlightening look at human beings
- By Elisabeth Carey on 11-11-20
- Explaining Humans
- What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships
- By: Dr Camilla Pang
- Narrated by: Dr Camilla Pang
Useful for people with ASD and others
Reviewed: 06-22-22
As someone who shares 99% of quirks of author I found this very interesting to read and give to my wife so she could try to understand how my brain works. I only wish this book came out 20 years ago so I might have read it sooner.
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- By: David S. Landes
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 47
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes' acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A detailed explanation
- By Kaarlis on 12-07-21
- The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
- Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
- By: David S. Landes
- Narrated by: Walter Dixon
A detailed explanation
Reviewed: 12-07-21
A long and tedious explanation of why things are how they are in this world. It is not simple and does not offer AHA moments or clear suggestions - because they are not possible.
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Ben Franklin’s Lessons in Life
- By: Mark Canada, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Mark Canada
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 323
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 273
How did a young tradesman in early 18th-century Philadelphia with no money, no connections, and no formal education end up as a leading scientist, an inventor, a master diplomat - and even a Founding Father of the United States of America? He used the same resource we have inside ourselves: a capacity for self-improvement.
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2 out of 5 stars
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No actually titled
- By MPM on 08-20-21
- Ben Franklin’s Lessons in Life
- By: Mark Canada, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Mark Canada
Too self helpy
Reviewed: 09-01-21
I was expecting more of a historical lesson while most of this was very self helpy
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The Everything Store
- Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- By: Brad Stone
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 13 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15,825
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 13,615
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13,619
Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail. But its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, wasn't content with being a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become the everything store, offering limitless selection and seductive convenience at disruptively low prices. To do so, he developed a corporate culture of relentless ambition and secrecy that's never been cracked. Until now.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Did you know how bad it is to work for Amazon?
- By Shamu from New York on 12-07-13
- The Everything Store
- Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- By: Brad Stone
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
Loved it
Reviewed: 07-03-21
Loved it,even if sometimes it seems that author has an axe to grind with Jeff and/or Amazon
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Disrupted
- My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
- By: Dan Lyons
- Narrated by: Dan Lyons
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,385
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,051
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,046
An instant New York Times best seller, Dan Lyons' "hysterical" (Recode) memoir, hailed by the Los Angeles Times as "the best book about Silicon Valley," takes listeners inside the maddening world of fad-chasing venture capitalists, sales bros, social climbers, and sociopaths at today's tech startups. For 25 years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession - until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. His job no longer existed. "I think they just want to hire younger people," his boss at Newsweek told him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Don't drink the Kool Aid
- By Margaret on 07-03-16
Generally good and enjoyble
Reviewed: 07-17-19
While there are some parts that seem like a rant or protest against things changing, the book is solid. While listening to this book I was taken back to my experience working in a 20 year old company that decided to “become a startup” and did all the ridiculous things. So this was an entertaining stroll down the memory lane.
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Lab Rats
- How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
- By: Dan Lyons
- Narrated by: Dan Lyons
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 247
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
New York Times best-selling author Dan Lyons exposes how the "new oligarchs" of Silicon Valley have turned technology into a tool for oppressing workers in this "passionate" (Kirkus) and "darkly funny" (Publishers Weekly) examination of workplace culture.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Loved “Disrupted”, and this starts strong, but…
- By William J Brown on 10-27-18
Sometimes it seems like the author still has some unresolved resentment
Reviewed: 07-11-19
While overall the book is balanced and author explains his statements well, sometimes he seems to have blind fits of rage where he just hurls insults or rants without much explanation and facts.
This book has encouraged me to look deeper into Basecamp and stuff by their owners.
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Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,454
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,061
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,048
Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs”. It went viral. After a million online views in 17 different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Incredibly disappointing...
- By Jordan Burton on 12-21-18
- Bullshit Jobs
- A Theory
- By: David Graeber
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
Good start but the second half was forced leftist propoganda
Reviewed: 12-25-18
While the first half was rather decent (some analysis was a bit off and it was clearly visible that author and/or people behind testimonies don’t have a clear grasp of some Industries or extremely complex processes) and I can mostly agree with analysis, the second half was completely unnecessary and should have been made into another book for pushing leftist ideas.
But the main point is clear - a lot of jobs are filled with fluff and could be optimized. However advent of collabotation and communication prevents it since someone always needs you.
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The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Story5 out of 5 stars 79
The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in our history, from best-selling, prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee. Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function. The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a 'unit of heredity'.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mind blowing... and thorough.
- By Apie on 09-20-20
- The Gene
- An Intimate History
- By: Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
Recommended for everyone
Reviewed: 11-19-18
While at some points this book becomes very Technical and Scientific, it is a recommended listen to everyone.
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