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I liked it quite a bit.
We have managed to built a trio but the technical components is missing - we do PM, Designer & Analyst and at times I underestimate the complexity of a solution.
Damn, I don't have to do the solutions! I don't have to care about timely deliveries!
The majority of Product Managers in Eastern Europe are agile project managers at best.
What an ugly environment to exist in. I need a drink.


Last but not least.
I am always puzzled by examples in books like this one - we have got a plenty of them literally presenting a problem to us on some live company.
I do have a problem with the solutions though - everything sounds cheesy and phantastique with a considerate amount of bravado one doesn't have to deal with.
Also, these companies probably never existed with names like that.
I definitely haven't heard of them. Why would I care about some DVD rental in Iowa if we have got Uber? or Tesla? Or Airbnb for God's sake. This part - the examples - always makes you think that there are people writing books and Product people making cool products happen.
These are different people and examples like 'Jim's Car Wash' make this book lose its credibility.

I pretty much liked the first 180 pages but I couldn't finish it.
Yes, this book's first part based on our past and, more importantly, our present makes a compelling scheme of things.
While some of the predictions failed already as Russia wouldn't wait with its moves but who's able to predict it all?
The chaos of Isis, Russia as a gas station for EU and many other things are obvious even for a rookie like me.

But if you have the courage to read on George's views on our future - damn, I was lost before I even started.
Hidden lunar bases? Battle stars by 2050?
Seeing all the stuff happening, the prediction sounds like a web series - Altered Carbon meets Expanse with lots of political flavors we living with today.

I couldn't turn the page after I have read it will be cheaper for the Japanese to create rockets out of lunar stones with jet engines attached to them.
While it sounds plausible I can't imagine it happening by 2050, looks like we will be busy dying on Earth before that.

garbage full of self-importance and some bs 'studies' as they call them based on newspaper articles and interviews;
the entire science is blunt and has next to no proof (none provided at the very least);

and again, it is full of pieces of weird information - collections of quotes by Frankl and some random sportsmen of the US.

none of it is actionable and even more - if you really try to use even half of it you will be the worst coach one had seen.

'books' these days are product demos of people who write them.
it is not about the condensed volume of knowledge, work of years of experience, pain and suffering to bring it all out there - it is a self-promo manifesto disguised as a book;
you can always post about it - what else could you do with a brochure like this?..

Bad quality writing, full of water and nonsense examples, borderline rude when it steals your precious time.

Richard, go get a job!

have to say, this book is a rollercoaster - at times extremely interesting, at times cheesy to appeal to the 'woke' audience it is being sold to.
some things are cool, some things are popular science the author has no idea about.

but his core things, the core question if the machine has indeed to die and why does it - I have to say I never even questioned it myself. Not even as a kid.
I mean, if we are capable of restoring things - regrowing skin, repairing organs to an extent - why are these functions blocked after we turn 50? why is the machine failing?

I started taking MNM, mind you.
And the parts about the global aging problem and our ways to go about it was of immense value.
I wanna live longer, damn I wanna stay long enough to see us colonise some other planet XD

Curiosity, fire and courage to stay is all this book is about

Okay, DeMarco is a nobody whatever he claims to be.
Apparently he had multiple companies before he cashed out and the book and his forum are something he does to impact others.
No shit Sherlock, sounds like Tai Lopez.
But !
Even Tai Lopez was basically transmitting common sense wrapped in stories for easier digestion.
I understand his average reader isn't that brilliant (otherwise he wouldn't go for a cheesy title) - neither am I but let me explain - one of the VC partners recommended the book a couple of years ago and I enjoyed this person's writings, I do enjoy them still for that matter.
So I gave it a chance and have to say, if you push yourself into digesting 'simple Simon' stories for people with low intellect - you can still get some value from that book.
Some of the 'rules' or 'laws' are simple math we never think about, especially in Eastern Europe we don't think in categories of volumes, prices in man-years and probabilities.
Even if you talk about something else, these disciplines above actually make a lot of sense.

p.s. I was surprised how he burned Kiyosaki and other infogypsies for not living the lives they are selling. Mate, how are you different?..

Still, some of things have to be reread by white-collars if they wanna start living someday (and drop that stupid existence we all have)