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Loved this

Revisado: 10-04-18

This book was great, a very thorough explanation of a very unique topic. This book highlights how ill prepared the Trump administration was to handle even the most basic responsibilities of governing, and how disastrous that could be. Serious stuff. I also really liked the length of this audible original, felt like a very dense and effective podcast.

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Makes you realize

Revisado: 10-03-18

This book really makes you realize how incredible the Daily Show was. I was never a huge fan of the Daily Show, but I have really come to respect it, and this book really cemented that appreciation. I don't know if any TV show has ever had such a significant impact on not only the landscape of TV (Colbert on the Late Show, John Oliver, Samantha Bee) but also on how we discuss and frame politics. This book walks you through this evolution, the only complaint I have about it is that the narrator has to read some comedic bits from the show and it almost always comes off as really awkward since the timing is absent and the delivery is dry, this is an inevitability of reiterating comedy, but still annoying.

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Way better than expected

Revisado: 10-03-18

This book was way better than I expected, as a huge fan of Pixars movies, I purchased this book to learn more about the film making, this book was so much more than that. This book operated on three levels for me, it worked as a book about film making, individual determination, and organizational structure. Creativity Inc. focuses on how Pixar runs as a company, not just as a studio, thus the lessons that Catmull articulates are applicable to areas outside of film making. I have referenced Creativity Inc. many times over the past two years across my work in marketing, sales, technology, and business. I have read this book multiple times since buying it. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works with other people, or even anyone who is interested in decision making and managing their time. Those were the two areas where I feel the most lasting impact.

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Limited argument

Revisado: 10-02-18

As a millennial on the younger end of the generational band, who feels very strongly about civic engagement, political awareness, education, and cognitive ability, I was very excited to read this book.

I was hoping for a thorough analysis of the impact that digital technology has had on my generations ability to think and engage with the world around them, for better or worse. What I was fearsome of was a one sided ignorant argument against a younger generation. The author repeatedly promises that this book is not a curmudgeonly argument against the millennials, but I was shocked at how simplistic and ignorant this book was.

I think there is an incredibly interesting discussion to be had about how the internet, a tool with incredible potential to widen our worldview and our intellectual capacity, seems to have been used to decrease the scope of our individual worlds and limit our ability to think critically. Is that a failing of our society, or does it say something bigger about our species cognitive capacity, maybe the internet is too powerful of a tool for us?

This book doesn’t discuss anything like that, instead this is another baby boomer complaining about how millennials don’t read classic literature, engage with the news enough, or pick up paper newspapers. As someone who does all three of those things, and many of the activities that the author bemoans about my generation not doing, I am far from convinced that these activities possess an inherent moral or intellectual superiority. Why are these activities inherently superior to the same activities being done on a laptop, or not at all? How do these activities equip millennials to handle the rigors of life?

I have my reasoning for believing that these activities are important, but to write a book with the central focus being critiquing a group of people for not doing certain activities, without ever articulating why those activities are important, comes off as incredibly ignorant.

This book is so condescending and judgmental it was astounding.

Millennials have grown up in an economy that is broken from the bottom up, a political system that is perverted beyond recognition, and a country that has been so consistently manipulated and mislead that they are divided beyond repair and dangerously apathetic about the erosion and decay of our institutions. Yet this author has the audacity to shamelessly write a book about how all of these disastrous outcomes are not a result of his generations mistakes or a flaw in their methods, having grown up in a post war boom, but rather a result of my inability to put my iPod down when I was 12 and pick up The Great Gatsby?

The fact that anyone can be so confident that their methods are right, when the state of the economy, country, and political system say otherwise, is astounding to me, and makes for a boring and frustrating read.

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