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Couldn't get through this one like the past book. The Tribe of Mentors format just doesn't work if there’s no diversification amongst the interviewees.

Of all the books I’ve read about systems thinking and mental models, I wish I had read this one first.

Sadly I didn’t enjoy reading this one compared to his other books. It’s a good primer but I didn’t learn much from the sprawling take on Eastern philosophy compared to his previous deep dives on stoicsm.

A slightly more palatable Finite and Infinite Games. The author tends to reuse the same companies and case studies across multiple books but it’s a good way to show benchmarks for faulting and enduring companies I guess.

Maybe I’m in a different place than when I read the author’s last book, which I lked a lot. But 30 minutes in and I can tell this one is going to be a 17-hour slough.

What a great listen. A world tour of malware (Mimikatz, Stuxnet, NotPetya, etc.) and the geopolitics surrounding their use, especially in Ukraine.

I should have read this earlier. This book and Mindhunter are getting me interested in more ex-FBI authors.

Think I’ve had my fill of profiling degenerates for now…

A dramatization of doing an epic IT project… more fun to read than expected. Chuckled at the fact that the main antagonist is a manager from Marketing…

Holy shit…

Got a lot of gems from this. But not sure the Tribe of Mentors format works for such a niche topic. You end up seeing a lot of the same answers repeated over and over…

“Spicy cod roe with cream cheese”, “I’ll pay be Suica”. Sudden urge to go back…