Reviews and Comments

Kleon claims he hates self promotion. And indeed this is a book about how to - as an artist, creator - create meaningful connections, find (not necessarily build) audience without using the "promotion" and "marketing" strategies. Most of the time. It's a good book with good advice.

This is actually quite good book without much classical self_help fodder.

This book has a strong message about the necessity of death, imagining what happens when immortality is possible.

There was a bit too much of subjectivity projected as objective in this book for my taste. It's lovely and well written book, but somehow often a bit superficial. I am eager to know more about octopus intelligence, but there was a lot of anectodal evidence and subsequent speculation here and too little hard-core science. I possibly had bigger expectations.

The livebomb part (essay and annotations) and particularly the last one where there's an intertwining of futurist quotes, history of a particular lynching of three black men and Terre's commentary was powerfully heartbreaking.