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jsilverman84's review against another edition
2.0
The author raises a lot of great points on specific risks and specific areas of fragility but then makes equally fragile assumptions about how those risks will play out. The author then levers those brittle assumptions up to macroscopic behavior of the overall system.
I doubt the author is as confident/naive as his writing suggests making me wonder if this is all a cash grab (ie. "the apocalypse narrative sells well").
If readers are willing to ask the question "how else might this play out?" throughout, then the inventory of fragilities still makes it worth a very fast read...
I doubt the author is as confident/naive as his writing suggests making me wonder if this is all a cash grab (ie. "the apocalypse narrative sells well").
If readers are willing to ask the question "how else might this play out?" throughout, then the inventory of fragilities still makes it worth a very fast read...
rachel1216's review against another edition
challenging
funny
informative
slow-paced
2.75
Long and dense. We appreciated some of the topics he broke down with detail, but overall I found it very slow and presumptive. The author certainly has humor, and that comes across in the audiobook.
plantonic_friendships's review against another edition
slow-paced
1.0
DNF; I fell for the gimmicky title.
In actuality, it was just a white dude making a ton of assumptions about other countries and their people. A lot of his "facts" sounds reasonable at face value,but with some thought, they feel a lot like him pulling stats out of his ass and with no sense for nuance.
He droned on and on. I was nearly two hours in of the 17 hour audiobook. I couldn't.
In actuality, it was just a white dude making a ton of assumptions about other countries and their people. A lot of his "facts" sounds reasonable at face value,but with some thought, they feel a lot like him pulling stats out of his ass and with no sense for nuance.
He droned on and on. I was nearly two hours in of the 17 hour audiobook. I couldn't.