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vaporvisions's review against another edition
informative
3.0
I enjoyed the Rilke quotes throughout. This book as an interesting companion to The Buddha and the Badass, as I was reading the two at the same time. The books Golden and Rest would good to pair to this one as well.
I love how the author describes 6 Sigma as a seizure. It explains so much about what is wrong with corporate culture and the addiction to work. Try also the book Slow Productivity by Cal Newport, which would add some good context to how to achieve less work as mentioned in this book.
I love how the author describes 6 Sigma as a seizure. It explains so much about what is wrong with corporate culture and the addiction to work. Try also the book Slow Productivity by Cal Newport, which would add some good context to how to achieve less work as mentioned in this book.
sidlama's review against another edition
informative
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
3.5
elanajell's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
booksandbarbara's review against another edition
informative
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.0
As somebody who is always feeling like they need to do something and hate being idle, this captured my curiosity and made for a really intriguing read.
I love the depths of the studies surrounding the cultural, scientific, psychological and historical arguements regarding how societies and corporations around the world throughout past and present has us believing that being idle is not a good thing at all, and why it is actually a good thing. When you think about it, we really are brainwashed with that point of view, aren't we.
There are many remarkable key points made that I'll definately be taking away with me, especially the ones in relation to background noise, how this helps not only with relaxation, but also with boosting your mood and creativity.
It's rare I take anything away from books like these, but this one really did make me think, reflect, and want to act. So, let's see if I'm able to alternate my mindset, take a breath, relax, and be 'lazy'.
I love the depths of the studies surrounding the cultural, scientific, psychological and historical arguements regarding how societies and corporations around the world throughout past and present has us believing that being idle is not a good thing at all, and why it is actually a good thing. When you think about it, we really are brainwashed with that point of view, aren't we.
There are many remarkable key points made that I'll definately be taking away with me, especially the ones in relation to background noise, how this helps not only with relaxation, but also with boosting your mood and creativity.
It's rare I take anything away from books like these, but this one really did make me think, reflect, and want to act. So, let's see if I'm able to alternate my mindset, take a breath, relax, and be 'lazy'.
naum's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting book and a quick read.
Chapters and even the narrative within a given chapter is kind of scattershot. And a few of the chapters (the one on Six Sigma particularly, though I enjoyed the rant ;)) didn't seem to belong here.
Chapters and even the narrative within a given chapter is kind of scattershot. And a few of the chapters (the one on Six Sigma particularly, though I enjoyed the rant ;)) didn't seem to belong here.
floridaminnie's review against another edition
3.0
I found this interesting especially with my business and education background.
mburnamfink's review against another edition
3.0
Show me on this brain where Six Sigma hurt you.
Autopilot is a pop-science/manifesto, where Andrew Smart, a machine learning engineer with a background in neuroscience, argues that busyness is a curse, and that idleness is actually a necessary and useful part of being human. The book has a kind of freshman earnest intensity that overwhelms the argument. I'll buy that there is a resting network in the brain, that activates when we aren't thinking about or doing anything in particular, but I'm not sure that the converse, that activating this network leads to genius, is true. Certainly there's a way in which the managerial jargon of efficiency and always being on task is actually opposed to risk-taking and innovation, but while Smart is persuasive in criticizing Six Sigma in particular, his arguments drawing on Rilke are much less convincing, and the neuroscience comes in a gush of metaphors.
Autopilot is a pop-science/manifesto, where Andrew Smart, a machine learning engineer with a background in neuroscience, argues that busyness is a curse, and that idleness is actually a necessary and useful part of being human. The book has a kind of freshman earnest intensity that overwhelms the argument. I'll buy that there is a resting network in the brain, that activates when we aren't thinking about or doing anything in particular, but I'm not sure that the converse, that activating this network leads to genius, is true. Certainly there's a way in which the managerial jargon of efficiency and always being on task is actually opposed to risk-taking and innovation, but while Smart is persuasive in criticizing Six Sigma in particular, his arguments drawing on Rilke are much less convincing, and the neuroscience comes in a gush of metaphors.