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amralsayed0's Reviews (146)
I don't usually write reviews but this book was EXACTLY what I wanted to listen to. It is really insightful. I couldn't stop listening to the audiobook until I finished it, only putting it down for sleep or work, neglecting everything else.
This book takes almost every logical fallacy and cognitive bias a human you can have and gives detailed examples for it and backs it up with the research that has been done on the topic. It made me stop listening several times to try and recall all the times I fell in to the biases and fallacies mentioned. I knew about some of them before reading the book, but there are 48 of them listed here so I was delighted to learn more.
If you want to be able to have a better conversation with other people, this book is for you.
This book takes almost every logical fallacy and cognitive bias a human you can have and gives detailed examples for it and backs it up with the research that has been done on the topic. It made me stop listening several times to try and recall all the times I fell in to the biases and fallacies mentioned. I knew about some of them before reading the book, but there are 48 of them listed here so I was delighted to learn more.
If you want to be able to have a better conversation with other people, this book is for you.
I love maths. I really do. I am not very good at it which is precisely what I love about it. Its difficulty.
So, I have really enjoyed this book. It is a bit math/programming heavy but interesting enough that if you vaguely understand the maths, it makes for an enjoyable read. All the maths bits are explained so nothing is too far from being understood and appreciated.
The combination of silly but sometimes critical maths errors that happen in the world with the hilarious comedy style (and narration) of Matt Parker and you get the most fun you can extract out of things going wrong.
So, I have really enjoyed this book. It is a bit math/programming heavy but interesting enough that if you vaguely understand the maths, it makes for an enjoyable read. All the maths bits are explained so nothing is too far from being understood and appreciated.
The combination of silly but sometimes critical maths errors that happen in the world with the hilarious comedy style (and narration) of Matt Parker and you get the most fun you can extract out of things going wrong.
If there is ever an ethical way to scare someone to sleep, this book is that.
While this book has a wealth of information about economics and helped me understand some of the reasoning behind various economic activities going on in our world, I have 2 huge problems with this book that prevent me from recommending it to other people:
1. It is very biased and takes on the capitalist agenda completely, never missing a single opportunity to comment on the futility and ineffectiveness of socialist economies and the MAGICAL powers of capitalist economies to regulate itself and be efficient. I did not appreciate this one-minded approach.
2. It is very repetitive. It explains a concept or an idea followed by an example followed by a re-explanation followed by another example then another re-explanation and so on. Every chapter in the book more ore less follows that formula. I know this is used to hammer the point, but this is just a bit too much hammering.
1. It is very biased and takes on the capitalist agenda completely, never missing a single opportunity to comment on the futility and ineffectiveness of socialist economies and the MAGICAL powers of capitalist economies to regulate itself and be efficient. I did not appreciate this one-minded approach.
2. It is very repetitive. It explains a concept or an idea followed by an example followed by a re-explanation followed by another example then another re-explanation and so on. Every chapter in the book more ore less follows that formula. I know this is used to hammer the point, but this is just a bit too much hammering.
It is amazing how a story written over 4000 years ago describes pretty much the same struggles faced by modern humans. Maybe because that is the human condition. It's a story about heroism and legacy, it's about the mortality of humans and the grief of losing loved ones, it is about the limits of human ability but also about the persistence required to reach those limits.
I also found the stories similar to Noah's Ark and creation of man from clay to be quite interesting. I was surprised to find such stories there thinking they were unique to religious texts. Also, the story has some other similarities to other myths from other eras.
I also found the stories similar to Noah's Ark and creation of man from clay to be quite interesting. I was surprised to find such stories there thinking they were unique to religious texts. Also, the story has some other similarities to other myths from other eras.