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Snow Leopard
- How Legendary Writers Create a Category of One
- By: Category Pirates, Nicolas Cole, Christopher Lochhead, and others
- Narrated by: Jason DeFillippo
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Whether you are a writer, creator, entrepreneur, executive, public speaker, investor, or industry thought leader, Snow Leopard is your guide for becoming known for a niche you own.
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Good but profanity doesn't win smart listeners
- By Professional Customer on 11-14-23
- Snow Leopard
- How Legendary Writers Create a Category of One
- By: Category Pirates, Nicolas Cole, Christopher Lochhead, Eddie Yoon
- Narrated by: Jason DeFillippo
A fresh take brought down by hacky self-promotion
Reviewed: 12-09-23
The book's approach to lambasting conventional, generic marketing and social media content is refreshing and valuable. However, the constant self-promotion and self-references significantly detract from the educational content. By the time you get halfway through the book, you will be sick and tired of hearing about "category pirates" and what "pirate Christopher" has accomplished in his life. We get it. You want to invent new languaging and hope it catches on, just like what you talk about in your book. I don't see it happening in this case though, guys.
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One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Following in 30 Days
- Growth Hacks for Your Business, Your Message, and Your Brand from the World's Greatest Minds
- By: Brendan Kane
- Narrated by: Brendan Kane
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Over 60 billion online messages are sent on digital platforms every day, and only a select few succeed in the mad scramble for customer attention. This means that the question for anyone who wants to gain mass exposure for their transformative content, business, or brand or connect with audiences around the globe is no longer if they should use social media but how to best take advantage of the numerous different platforms. How can you make a significant impact in the digital world and stand out among all the noise?
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So much fluff.
- By Daniella on 05-17-19
- One Million Followers: How I Built a Massive Social Following in 30 Days
- Growth Hacks for Your Business, Your Message, and Your Brand from the World's Greatest Minds
- By: Brendan Kane
- Narrated by: Brendan Kane
The same as all other books on this subject.
Reviewed: 07-14-23
If the core of your message can be reduced to "Just start doing things until you find something that works, and then keep doing more of and iterating on that thing," you don't need to write a book about it. Like every other book on building a social media following, nowhere does this one actually explain how you figure out what kind of content to make that will be successful because the author does not know. Like every other guru, he threw a bunch of stuff at a wall, got lucky, and built a strategy around what worked for him. This is not expertise; this is survivor bias.
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Making Mental Might
- How to Look Ten Times Smarter Than You Are
- By: Bernard Michael Patten
- Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Memory degradation happens to everyone. Even people in good health forget where they park their cars or leave their reading glasses. Some draw a blank entering their PIN. Is the stove off? Cat fed? Door locked? Did you take your medication? Not sure? How come? These memory problems only get worse as we get older unless we employ mental exercises to improve memory now.
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Great resource
- By Reviewer on 07-17-22
- Making Mental Might
- How to Look Ten Times Smarter Than You Are
- By: Bernard Michael Patten
- Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl
Great resource
Reviewed: 07-17-22
I've always felt that a good memory was cornerstone to knowledge. Dr. Patten has just confirmed my thinking. His research and years in the field of "The Mind" have yielded him a great understanding as to just how the mind works. He gives countless examples of when an activity is conducted and the brain is scanned before and after such activity (the practicing at a piano for instance) that the brain "rearrange and grown" its syntactical abilities during the playing, and will maintain this increased syntactical activity up to 10 days later even without further playing of the instrument. Astounding. It boils down to use! If the mind is used in an artful, productive manner, it will therefrom benefit from such activity, "growing" itself by means of increased syntactical production. The mind is a muscle; exercise it! The author's phrase "Making Mental Might" is the perfect description for all the exercises he prescribes throughout his book. Granted, the individual who can benefit most from the author's work are those trying to stave off Alzheimer's or perhaps even some traumatic brain injury. I doubt they are looking to increase their feigned intelligence 10 fold, but are rather attempting to hang onto what they already have. The points elaborated upon within the pages of this book are all quite interesting, and in considering them, individually, perhaps even debating them with a friend or family member, will undoubtedly (according to the author) help you to improve your memory. Any mental activity will help with such, but it is the intricate, mind bending, creative and thorough learning activities one may undergo that will help most in one's quest for Making Mental Might. Give this one a read and perhaps you too will emerge at the conclusion of the read with a better memory--or at least grasping the concept as to how wo achieve such.
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A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse
- Our Journey from the Age of Prosperity to the Era of Environmental Grief
- By: Vítězslav Kremlík
- Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
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In A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse, Vítězslav Kremlík delivers a refreshing and objective analysis of the history and science behind climate change. Books about climate change frequently endorse a narrow, often malicious angle of total indoctrination or abject denial of the official story. Kremlík employs a direct and detailed critique of not only the studies that have led to our current understanding of large-scale changes in the weather, but also the political biases and motives behind global action taken in response to it.
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Great guide
- By Tim on 04-18-22
- A Guide to the Climate Apocalypse
- Our Journey from the Age of Prosperity to the Era of Environmental Grief
- By: Vítězslav Kremlík
- Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl
Required reading about the science and narrative
Reviewed: 12-10-21
This book is a thoroughly researched guide and inquiry into the science behind and mainstream narrative of climate change and global warming. This is required reading for skeptics and believers alike.
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She Comes First
- The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
- By: Ian Kerner
- Narrated by: Ian Kerner
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
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As women everywhere will attest, when it comes to understanding female sexuality, most guys know more about what's under the hood of a car than under the hood of a clitoris. And while it seems that men have struggled valiantly since the dawn of time to find ways to reliably elicit the female orgasm, rare is the guy who has the modesty to ask: "What do I do?" Ironically, the answer has always been right there on the tip of his tongue.
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Women are hot for this book
- By Paul D Alexander on 11-28-05
- She Comes First
- The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
- By: Ian Kerner
- Narrated by: Ian Kerner
Title is misleading
Reviewed: 11-03-21
This book should be called Why Cunnilingus Is the Best Way to Make a Woman Cum. I bought it expecting a more rigorous and detailed examination of all areas of sexual interplay and their effect upon the female body and psyche. I was a bit jarred when from the foreword onward, it became clear this was a book almost entirely devoted to performing oral sex on women. I understand that that's the author's informed opinion about the most important part of the sex act for him (or perhaps just his personal preference), but not what I was expecting from a thinking man's guide to pleasuring a woman.
So, are women who don't particularly prefer receiving oral sex supposed to be left out to dry? No pleasure for you? And the same if you're a man who doesn't tend to express his intimacy that way? I guess your partners will be forever unfulfilled with your dick and digits?
However, the information contained about oral sex was quite thorough. If that's the kind of guide you are looking for, have at it. Although, a lot of the fluffy and new-agey wording could have been left out of this "thinking" man's guide.
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Heroes, Legends, Champions
- Why Heroism Matters
- By: Andrew Bernstein
- Narrated by: Sean Saulsbury
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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Taking the provocative first step toward understanding the nature of heroes, this book explains what heroes are and why mankind needs them.
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A great overview of real heroism
- By Reviewer on 10-28-21
- Heroes, Legends, Champions
- Why Heroism Matters
- By: Andrew Bernstein
- Narrated by: Sean Saulsbury
A great overview of real heroism
Reviewed: 10-28-21
As this book correctly identifies, real heroism is about remaining true to one's absolute ethical values in the face of opposition from the environment.
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Widely debated since its publication in 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Presenting an analytical approach to the problems of capitalism and the resulting class struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, the text lays out the rationale and goals of communism as conceived by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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crazy people think too.
- By Eugen on 11-10-18
- The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings
- By: Karl Marx
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
It's as bad as they say it is
Reviewed: 10-22-21
I went into the Communist Manifesto with an open mind about what I would find inside. Perhaps, I thought, Marx preached some pretty reasonable things that have just been blown up, misinterpreted, and misapplied in violent, counter-productive, and destructive ways that he would never have endorsed. Maybe the dogma of communism really amounts to something simple and attractive like "share with your neighbors and take care of each other with your own property."
I am very disappointed to finally be able to confirm that this is not what Marx preached. It is clear from his own words (and the additional supplemental writings in this publication) that the philosophy of communism can really be summarized as the violent seizure of tools and other property from the producers and employers of the world to be handed over to a violent State monopoly in the hopes that they will, somehow, be more "fair" and "just".
Even if the reader can get behind that immoral idea, at no point that I noticed did Marx actually outline the means by which the proletariat would be able to ensure that an arbitrarily determined group of governors would treat them any better than the "exploitative" bourgeoisie that they hate so much. When such people look at massive evil and failed institutions like the Soviet Union that enslaved and murdered thousands of their own citizens for failing to fit neatly in the prescribed economic model, presumably they claim the only flaw in the system was that the State did not function the way it was supposed to. It was not benevolent. Never do they explain how one can actually and maintain a benevolent entity whose role it is to violently enforce their economic preferences on individuals, though.
The fact that this writing is not talked about in the same vein as Hitler's Mein Kampf is mind boggling. The narration was decent though.
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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
- Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
- By: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
- Narrated by: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, loneliness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond? For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: The accelerating rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt.
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Presents conjecture and bias as science
- By Reviewer on 09-16-21
- A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
- Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
- By: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
- Narrated by: Heather Heying, Bret Weinstein
Presents conjecture and bias as science
Reviewed: 09-16-21
I had a great time listening to this audiobook and found many of the pieces of lifestyle advice offered insightful, so long as they were backed by science and observation. This applies to about 80% of the book.
But mixed in with the reasonable conclusions were instances of pure conjecture utterly disconnected from science and reason. The author's biases, unfortunately, show up and are presented in the same light as actual science and the conclusions reasonably following from it. But because they are presented with such confidence and matter-of-factness, readers who aren't paying attention and specifically looking for them might mistake unsubstantiated opinion inserts for science, which makes parts of this book fall into the category of scientism, which is ironic since scientism is specifically called out in the text.
At one point, the author postulates that justice and freedom are on a sliding scale that cannot coexist in their ideal form, and thus her particular favored brand of legal regulations must be enforced. How does she reach this conclusion? Can she even define what she means by operative terms like "justice" and "freedom"? She presents these arguments alongside real, credible, substantiated ones like that its perfectly healthy for us to eat cooked food because we've been doind so for more than a million years. She can certainly define the biological and anthropological terms she uses when making conclusions in those domains, so at what point does the book transition into a soap box for her personal views? And how is any of this related to a hunter-gatherer view of life?
Anyway, I still learned a lot from the book, so I recommend it. But the reader must tread carefully with a critical eye (or ear) out and not take everything in at face value.
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Get Bail, Leave Jail
- America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting Out of Custody Before Trial
- By: S.J. Plotkin
- Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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When you or someone you care about is incarcerated, your priority is to secure a safe release as soon as possible. This can be overwhelming. You may feel rushed and might make bad decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate information - decisions that carry serious long-term consequences. Get Bail, Leave Jail helps Americans safely navigate legal accusations, arrests, bail bondsmen, and the most complicated court procedures. Listen to Get Bail, Leave Jail to prepare yourself with this vital information before you or your loved ones ever need it.
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Excellent bail review
- By Bryan on 08-12-21
- Get Bail, Leave Jail
- America’s Guide to Hiring a Bondsman, Navigating Bail Bonds, and Getting Out of Custody Before Trial
- By: S.J. Plotkin
- Narrated by: Gregory V. Diehl
Great resource
Reviewed: 08-10-21
In my experience, there are two types of books written on subjects related to the criminal justice system or process of criminal defense in America, and they seem to suffer from opposite problems. Either they are very esoteric and high-minded because their target is people in the legal or bail profession or too simple for people to get real practical advice. This one is exactly what it should be and highly valuable.
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Becoming a Life Coach
- Masters at Work
- By: Tom Chiarella
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
- Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
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A fascinating guide to a career as a life coach written by award-winning journalist Tom Chiarella and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the field - essential listening for someone considering a path to this rewarding profession.
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Didn't love it...
- By Deborah on 09-07-19
- Becoming a Life Coach
- Masters at Work
- By: Tom Chiarella
- Narrated by: Edward Bauer
Goes against the grain
Reviewed: 09-11-19
Becoming a life coach is better than the deluge of other introductory books on the topic of life coaching in the modern world because it is grounded in a variety real experiences from real coaches. Each one has their own take on this strange and fast evolving profession, and many of them are counter to what you might expect life for a life coach to be like. I hope reading this book gives aspiring and current life coaches the confidence to pursue coaching in the way that is best suited to their personality, gifts, and values.
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