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Ce livre avait un potentiel assez grand, et la vision de l'auteur est assez juste.

Malheureusement, la lecture en elle-même est assez décevante. On y ressens un manque de rigueur. Beaucoup d'informations données sont au ressenti au lieu d'être basées sur des faits.
Au final, l'auteur rêve beaucoup, mais ses propositions tiennent moyennement la route.

One can see a great book about writing when that book is go easy and entertaining to read, and makes one want to start writing more.

D'excellentes idées, bien écrit et pas dans les extremes.

I could stop at the fact that they think Break Point is a bad movie ...
But that would mean the rest of the book is good, when it isn't.

It's full of self-congratulations, and treating everyone who isn't BrewDog as clowns.
There's also a lot of contradictions across the book. For example, don't build a business model. However, you should build a "cash-flow model" which look very much like the same thing.

Finally, the tone is so wrong. This could be a new version of the bro code.
It's even disrespectful in some areas. For example, you hired a dwarf to protect for you (he even got arrested). The least thing to do would be to name that person, not to mention him as "the dwarf".

This is a great book on the fallacies of our capitalistic society.

However, the author tends to see way too many jobs as bullshit.
For example, yes, middle management can be bullshit. But it's either because the company's organization is bad, or the person is at the wrong place. Both can be fixed, and middle managers who like what they do have a great impact around them.

The content of this book is quite interesting. But it many places, it's quite poorly written, and the author seems to have a quite high ego of himself (while talking about humility).

This a great book, extremely well written and entertaining.
The pre-presidential part could really make one want to go into politics.
The rest is all about how everything is only compromise, and the limits of democracy.

The only negative thing it shows is how even someone like Obama sees America as conducting the entire world, which shows quite a lack of humility.