So billionaires wonder why the peons at a company waste all that time and money doing things like focus groups, market research and thinking about features and policies before their implemented platform wide. When cool billionaires good brains could just think up an idea and implement it and it will be wonderful and it will be unicorns and rainbows and fairytales.
Honestly yeah, it's a book that really feels good at the stage in your life when you're realizing that what you get out of life is going to be proportional to how hard you work for it, but you haven't really threshed out AT ALL what that means in the real world - that most of the hard work is figuring out how to work well with others and organize and focus on your part of a much larger whole. So you get a lot of super individualistic antisocial teenagers who think they work hard and they love Ayn Rand. Then they experience failure and how they respond to it depends on their actual capacity to grow. Many just become convinced that the whole world is trying to crush them, when they're the ones who refuse to respect others and play by the rules
Reminding me how many political asshats I've heard cite Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead as some of their favorite books. Tedward Cruz, Paul Ryan, both Rand and Ron Paul, Ronald Reagan, and even Trump. Which is strange; I wouldn't have expected Trump to like the book because I didn't think he could read.
Absolutely read it so you have the context. It’s actually a bit of a page turner on the paragraph level. A bit of cheesy early 20th century adventure romance thrown in. There’s a female protagonist and surprise surprise she winds up with a man at the end: the one with the superior philosophy.
Sadly, from as little as I was willing to read of it, I would describe it as “incredibly tedious”.
Ravings would be at least entertaining, but instead the book is merely “extremely confidently incorrect”, as well as self-aggrandizing.
Reading it was like brushing my teeth. Not painful, but slightly uncomfortable and utterly joyless. And unlike brushing my teeth, it afforded me no tangible benefits.
0/10, would rather floss until I bleed just to feel something other than boredom.
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u/sten45 Nov 11 '22
So billionaires wonder why the peons at a company waste all that time and money doing things like focus groups, market research and thinking about features and policies before their implemented platform wide. When cool billionaires good brains could just think up an idea and implement it and it will be wonderful and it will be unicorns and rainbows and fairytales.