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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- 著者: Matthew Walker
- ナレーター: Steve West
- 再生時間: 13 時間 52 分
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Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
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Great book!
- 投稿者: Guillermo (Read to Learn) 日付: 2018/12/01
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間: 16 時間 20 分
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don’t Have To
- 著者: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- ナレーター: Dr David A. Sinclair
- 再生時間: 11 時間 55 分
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease - it is inevitable. But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable. In Lifespan, Dr David Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues just that.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- 著者: Simon Sinek
- ナレーター: Simon Sinek
- 再生時間: 7 時間 18 分
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Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way - and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with why.
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A Promised Land
- 著者: Barack Obama
- ナレーター: Barack Obama
- 再生時間: 29 時間 10 分
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Why We Sleep
- Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
- 著者: Matthew Walker
- ナレーター: Steve West
- 再生時間: 13 時間 52 分
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Sleep is one of the most important but least understood aspects of our life, wellness, and longevity. Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why we suffer such devastating health consequences when we don't sleep. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
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Great book!
- 投稿者: Guillermo (Read to Learn) 日付: 2018/12/01
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Guns, Germs and Steel
- The Fate of Human Societies
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Doug Ordunio
- 再生時間: 16 時間 20 分
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Having done field work in New Guinea for more than 30 years, Jared Diamond presents the geographical and ecological factors that have shaped the modern world. From the viewpoint of an evolutionary biologist, he highlights the broadest movements both literal and conceptual on every continent since the Ice Age, and examines societal advances such as writing, religion, government, and technology.
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Lifespan
- Why We Age - and Why We Don’t Have To
- 著者: Dr David A. Sinclair, Matthew D. LaPlante
- ナレーター: Dr David A. Sinclair
- 再生時間: 11 時間 55 分
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For decades, the medical community has looked to a variety of reasons for why we age, and the consensus is that no-one dies of old age; they die of age-related diseases. That's because ageing is not a disease - it is inevitable. But what if everything you think you know about ageing is wrong? What if ageing is a disease? And that disease is curable. In Lifespan, Dr David Sinclair, one of the world’s foremost authorities on genetics and ageing, argues just that.
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The Tyranny of Merit
- What's Become of the Common Good?
- 著者: Michael J. Sandel
- ナレーター: Michael J. Sandel
- 再生時間: 11 時間 17 分
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The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good? World-renowned philosopher Michael J. Sandel argues that to overcome the crises that are upending our world, we must rethink the attitudes toward success and failure that have accompanied globalization and rising inequality. Sandel shows the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgment it imposes on those left behind, and traces the dire consequences across a wide swath of American life.
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- 著者: Simon Sinek
- ナレーター: Simon Sinek
- 再生時間: 7 時間 18 分
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Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way - and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with why.
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Humankind
- A Hopeful History
- 著者: Rutger Bregman
- ナレーター: Thomas Judd, Rutger Bregman
- 再生時間: 11 時間 36 分
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It’s a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we’re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest.
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The Culture Map
- Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
- 著者: Erin Meyer
- ナレーター: Lisa Larsen
- 再生時間: 7 時間 42 分
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Americans precede anything negative with three nice comments; French, Dutch, Israelis, and Germans get straight to the point; Latin Americans and Asians are steeped in hierarchy; Scandinavians think the best boss is just one of the crowd. It's no surprise that when they try and talk to each other, chaos breaks out. In The Culture Map, INSEAD professor Erin Meyer is your guide through this subtle, sometimes treacherous terrain in which people from starkly different backgrounds are expected to work harmoniously together.
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Great help for multi international team
- 投稿者: Amazon Customer 日付: 2020/08/27
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マルクス・アウレーリウス 自省録
- 著者: マルクス・アウレーリウス, 神谷美恵子
- ナレーター: 平川 正三
- 再生時間: 7 時間 53 分
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あたかも一万年も生きるかのように行動するな。生きているうちに、許されている間に、善き人たれ──ローマ皇帝でストア派の哲人マルクス・アウレーリウス(121-180)。
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セルフヘルプ本の原点にして頂点
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/06/29
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Homo Deus
- A Brief History of Tomorrow
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 14 時間 54 分
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Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times best seller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity's future and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.
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This book does get you thinking
- 投稿者: Vera Pereira 日付: 2019/05/01
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
- 著者: Yuval Noah Harari
- ナレーター: Derek Perkins
- 再生時間: 11 時間 41 分
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Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic of fake news or the threat of terrorism? What should we teach our children? Yuval Noah Harari takes us on a thrilling journey through today’s most urgent issues.
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Very intellectual
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/01/19
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Steve Jobs
- 著者: Walter Isaacson
- ナレーター: Dylan Baker
- 再生時間: 9 時間 18 分
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Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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A must read for any techie
- 投稿者: Amazon カスタマー 日付: 2020/03/24
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Educated
- A Memoir
- 著者: Tara Westover
- ナレーター: Julia Whelan
- 再生時間: 12 時間 10 分
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Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. Her quest for knowledge transformed her.
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Collapse
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- 著者: Jared Diamond
- ナレーター: Michael Prichard
- 再生時間: 27 時間 1 分
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In Jared Diamond’s follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion, and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices were all factors in the demise of societies around the world, but some found solutions and persisted.
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1984
- 著者: George Orwell
- ナレーター: Adriel Brandt
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1984 is a novel by the British author George Orwell in 1949. The narrative unfolds in an imagined future when most of the world has fallen prey to omnipresent government surveillance, propaganda, and endless war. Great Britain has become a province of the super state Oceania, which is ruled by the Party, whose leader is called Big Brother. The Party employs the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Winston Smith, the protagonist, is an ordinary worker who secretly despises the Party and dreams of rebellion.
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Rich Dad Poor Dad: 20th Anniversary Edition
- What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
- 著者: Robert T. Kiyosaki
- ナレーター: Tom Parks
- 再生時間: 8 時間 22 分
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Rich Dad Poor Dad is Robert's story of growing up with two dads - his real father and the father of his best friend, his rich dad - and the ways in which both men shaped his thoughts about money and investing. The book explodes the myth that you need to earn a high income to be rich and explains the difference between working for money and having your money work for you. In the 20th anniversary edition of this classic, Robert offers an update on what we’ve seen over the past 20 years related to money, investing, and the global economy.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
- 著者: Daniel Kahneman
- ナレーター: Patrick Egan
- 再生時間: 20 時間 2 分
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The guru to the gurus at last shares his knowledge with the rest of us. Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's seminal studies in behavioral psychology, behavioral economics, and happiness studies have influenced numerous other authors, including Steven Pinker and Malcolm Gladwell. In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Kahneman at last offers his own, first book for the general public. It is a lucid and enlightening summary of his life's work. It will change the way you think about thinking. Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Kahneman explains....
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Should probably read the book with it.
- 投稿者: Shawn Afshar 日付: 2018/11/18
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The Room Where It Happened
- A White House Memoir
- 著者: John Bolton
- ナレーター: Robert Petkoff, John Bolton - epilogue
- 再生時間: 20 時間 52 分
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As President Trump’s national security advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is one of the few White House memoirs to date by a top-level official. With almost daily access to the president, John Bolton has produced a precise rendering of his days in and around the Oval Office. What Bolton saw astonished him: a president for whom getting reelected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation.
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この半年で1番刺激的で面白い
- 投稿者: Amazonユーザー 日付: 2020/08/04
批評家のレビュー
"Spectacular and terrifyingly true." (Owen Jones)
"Explosive." (John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year)
"Thought-provoking and funny." (The Times)
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber, read by Christopher Ragland.
Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered why not? Up to 40% of us secretly believe our jobs probably aren't necessary. In other words: they are bullshit jobs. This audiobook shows why, and what we can do about it.
In the early 20th century, people prophesied that technology would see us all working 15-hour weeks and driving flying cars. Instead, something curious happened. Not only have the flying cars not materialised, but average working hours have increased rather than decreased. And now, across the developed world, three-quarters of all jobs are in services, finance or admin: jobs that don't seem to contribute anything to society. In Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber explores how this phenomenon - one more associated with the Soviet Union, but which capitalism was supposed to eliminate - has happened. In doing so, he looks at how, rather than producing anything, work has become an end in itself; the way such work maintains the current broken system of finance capital; and, finally, how we can get out of it.
This audiobook is for anyone whose heart has sunk at the sight of a whiteboard, who believes 'workshops' should only be for making things, or who just suspects that there might be a better way to run our world.
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- Hector
- 2018/09/20
Interesting ideas but not a great book
The book suffers a bit from the very thing it is criticizing. It could have been written in 2 chapters and make all of its fundamental points. But it's been filled with hours of BS just to justify it be a "book". It's interesting, nevertheless.
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- Corne Kruger
- 2019/01/07
What a book!
This book is fantastic. well written and concisely explained. entertaining style as well as a well thought out topic. coming from a conservative background favouring the free market and libertarian ideals, this has really opened up my thinking but if you are like me then listen with an open mind
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- 匿名
- 2018/12/04
Start thinking
This is a really good explanation of our society and surprisingly accurate for far too many people in the workforce. We should really think more about this. And absolutely do things differently.
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- James Laybourn
- 2018/07/20
The "Bullshit" in the title is very descriptive
I almost never give up on an audiobooks but I am giving up on this one after less than an hour because it was just making me angry. The author presents this book based upon his qualifications as an anthropologist but it quickly becomes apparently that this is a political tract. What annoyed me were the extremely one sided arguments about the nature of a BS job and the use of over simplified examples to make his points. I was recommended this book by a colleague and was intregued because I think there generally are a lot of wasted jobs out there. I was expecting a balanced and well reasoned assessment but what I got instead was definitions such as teachers and nurses are required because if they weren't there society would notice but lawyers are a bullshit job because if they weren't there no one would be affected. I assume that there was a more deep and reasoned argument later in the book but I couldn't bring myself to continue. Performance was fine - my only issue was with the content.
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- Christian R. Unger
- 2018/05/25
interesting, depressing, incomplete
The title is focused on jobs that have no meaningful output, wastes of time and destruction of the soul. So much is truly fascinating and depressing and also misses consistently that this is a perception of the individual, which is accepted as true (and in many cases probably is given the stories that back this up). But, this also opens up the question of jobs that just feel meaningless but are badly taught, and although these are discussed, as well as other angles, some angles just strike me as badly explored. A strong focus, or recurring theme is that much money could be saved if things were done differently (again true), and more just understood what money is (which is either not discussed or ruled out of scope) leaving especially the concluding chapters hollow because new issues are introduced but not pursued. Overall there is a lot good here but the potential is squandered by not engaging with some of those topics that are hinted at. Also, being an anarchist occasionally seems to be used as an explanation ... which does not explain everything, to simplify: the supplement industry is a scam because I don't believe Oranges are comparable to Lemons on vitamin C content. So running with the simely, I'm not sure what kind of comparison we are talking about and can I get more detail on how it might be a scam. Here this is about governments becoming a thing of the past and being an anarchist, but how are we getting there and how would this work? (generally or in context, I'm curious on either, yet neither gets any details). These things feel like interesting excursions that would bear relevance and are ignored. Broadly, it's a good title that misses opportunities both in addressing issues it raises or pointing to alternative sources. Similarly some angles of consideration are missed and feel intentionally ignored because they are present but not pursued or obviously absent.
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- Sergey
- 2018/08/08
Postmodernist propaganda of universal basic income
The author is a self-proclaimed anarchist hoping for the dismantlement of the states. Basically, he says that since some jobs are pointless, non-productive and boring, then the salaried employees performing these jobs should be free to quit them and still receive the money from "the government" (i.e. from taxes of people who still would be working). Don't believe me? Read it and see for yourself. It's a postmodernistic propaganda advocating for Universal Basic Income. Spoiler alert - the book ends with a cute story about a bunch of feminists forcing a child to burn the New Testament because it was "sexist".
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- BDD
- 2018/07/12
Read the original essay
Not really much expanded beyond the original essay there is a great deal of filler material. Whilst the first half of the book is entertaining enough Graeber’s inability to offer much of a solution, or at least template for resistance, means he sails perilously close to doing a “bullshit job” in his analysis
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- Hj
- 2019/07/15
Excellent listen, but can't sort by chapter
Well-written and reasoned argument, but the audiobook isn't divided into chapters, and that's real bull***t!
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- Dr J Wood
- 2018/07/20
Good, but the argument is simple
This was a really interesting book, but there is a lot of repetition. The author seems to assume his point requires extensive backing up and anecdotes. Whilst his explanation is important, I feel I was often hearing the same discussion again. and again in slightly different words. I also found it a little odd to have an American narrator when 70-80% of the author's examples were UK specific.
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- Vlad
- 2018/06/08
Excellent
Graeber is an amazing social scientist, with a gift for precise arguments. This book is an development of his 2013 piece with the same title, and his attempt at a social theory of labour - or lack thereof -, and a must read to anyone who wants to think about work and what it means to us humans.
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- Erik Krois
- 2018/08/06
The last great taboo?
Fascinating idea that the author has clearly well researched. Worth the read and adds a new dimension to the UBI discussion. If you've never worked in a large corporate office environment you may be in for an eye opener and if you have worked in such environments you'll likely feel a sense of relief to know you are not alone in having a bullshit job.
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- 匿名
- 2018/07/24
Book serves as a guide to avoid pointless work.
This book serves better as a guide to avoid pointless work rather than an overarching explanation of a large number of modern jobs. I enjoyed the book as someone who is young and thinking of changing career but wants to stay in an ethical field. The book has helped me realise that as long as a job it is socially useful, plays to my skills and pays a fair wage that I would be happy enough in it. I am not sure if the author intended it to be a self-help guide, but I think this is the book's biggest strength.
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- Mike
- 2018/06/02
Generally good, albeit a little one sided.
If you can forgive the author for being a little bit one sided (he knows what he knows and doesn't really entertain how anyone could disagree with him) then you may just be able to see where he is coming from in what is a sensible conclusion on the world of modern work and an enjoyable yarn to get there. At times the author maybe over does things and waxes lyrical on a point that most readers got in his first paragraph introducing the point and in general the book is quite long for a relatively simple conclusion. He also uses anecdote heavily without any real statistical pedigree and focuses far too much on his own limited experiences in academia and liberal circles. Despite all this I tend to find his logic and conclusions sound and found myself enjoying the "story".
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- Niall.nf
- 2019/07/26
Yawn
It’s a vaguely interesting fleeting idea that would be better as a newspaper article rather than an entire book. The irony of a book about fluff being fluffed out with fluff.
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- Angelicano
- 2019/05/30
Incredible ideas and fascinating insights.
This is a must read for everyone. Packed with historical perspectives and brilliant observations that will challenge you and everything you have ever believed about work.
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- Le Tigre
- 2020/10/23
the most important book of the last 30 years
An eye opener. I am listening to it for the second time. Both very funny, intellectually honest and courageous, this essay / book is a must-read for anyone with a job or having had one that led you to observe things around you and wonder if the world is not an absurd theatre where the most mediocre beings are the most successful.
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- Michael
- 2018/08/01
Bullshit Jobs: A Reality
“It’s hard to imagine a surer sign that one is dealing with an irrational economic system than the fact that the prospect of eliminating drudgery is considered to be a problem.” - David Graeber For me this is the poignant heart of the entire problem; how is it that in our pursuit of making life easier, we’re now making it harder for lack of imagination? We left the shady canopies of the jungle, stood upright, learned to sweat, braved the savannah, built primitive canoes and populated new lands, harnessed steam, tamed electrons and are now on the precipice of being able to free everyone from drudgery and our biggest dilemma is we can’t work out a productive way to imagine how this might be. The history of humanity, of all life for that matter, is one of change; increasing complexity and control that feeds back into itself. Yet, now, for lack of a mental model that has been stripped via indoctrination, we are now at an impasse with ourselves - the economy has become a kind of shotgun pointed back on itself and instead of trying to invent our way out of that situation we’re merely spending all our time trying to figure out how to keep the proverbial gun from firing, and we’re losing precious time. David makes a strong, neigh impenetrable, argument that 50%+ of current occupations have been invented to keep the wheels turning, for no other reason than to allow people to earn money to spend back in; a useless exercise that wastes resources and life. Think about the plethora of occupations that exist to support other occupations that are meaningless, that contribute no social value whatsoever, or those that exist merely because we’re all too busy working bullshit jobs to be able to find time to cook, or look after our children. I used to work at a callcenter that sold everything from energy to internet, and the primary value statement was attempting to compare different costs of the same service and then harass people to try and save them an average of maybe $10/m if they change provider, which was obviously worth money to the business. I couldn’t stomach it - it’s literally a bunch of people that turn up, and get pushed to hit sales targets, that produce nothing of value... nothing. It only exists because we have 20+ electricity providers in Australia... why? There’s only one electrical infrastructure and electrons always work the same. These companies don’t provide anything, they meter your use and bill you with increasingly complex arrays of discounts and rates, all with a different colour letterhead to their competitor. There are literally thousands and thousands of people, even hundreds of thousands, fuck it, millions of people, that work in what I call ‘Self Serving Chains of Reliance’, and it’s insanity. We don’t trust people to not work, work is a virtue in and of itself even if it’s a heinous waste of time and resources; the narrative from top-down has worked a treat and we now beat one another over the head for being lazy if we’re not willing to torture ourselves, unless we’re of the lucky few that manage to get paid for something that matters. People are what we tell them they are, and what we make them. And we have told them they are lazy, and convinced them of this truth; a more permeating self perpetuating prophecy there is not. And don’t even get me started on the statistically proven inversely proportionate relationship between job income and social value contribution... what kind of world do we want? We need to return to a time where self-help books (usually about wealth) are tossed in the trash and books that deal with structuring the world in such a way that we produce not monetary wealth, but the kinds of people we want to be around. Aristotle had it right when he said, “Men [and women] acquire particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.” What ways are we forcing people to act in, and in doing so what qualities are they attaining that continually create the world? If you can think of a reason for your job to exist, outside of giving you money that you need, or merely occupying your time, please pick up this book - it’s more important than the title may suggest. We are torturing ourselves, and we’re on the precipice of vindication via autonomy or a divide such that we’ve never seen; what world will we choose?
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- Zeveq
- 2018/08/24
Worth a read
Light hearted, easy to follow, interesting content, this book does say important things about major problems our society is facing. I would recommend it. But the writing feels frustratingly one-sided: the author stresses the cases which support his argument, conspicuously avoids critical nuances, omits many factors which play against his pitch, and seems to label anyone who differs as naive, ignorant or overly particular, depending on how articulate they are. I did however enjoy the delight with which he seems to enjoy words like 'ramification', 'proliferation', and 'sundry'.
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- T.B.
- 2020/06/14
A must read for anyone with a job.
If you have a job, bullshit or not, you have to read this. Right now.
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- 2019/11/27
Bullshit Jobs ... bullshit book
12 hours and 38 minutes on a subject that could be successfully dealt with in 10. It should be a fascinating topic but this just doesn't deal with it well.
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- simon
- 2018/06/18
Incredible uncovering of the useless job epidemic
I have been aware of the massive overtaking of pretty much every industry by bureaucratic and administration for quite a while, witnessing it in my own field (construction) and how so many people don't really contribute anything of any value to society, well this book goes deep into this issue which lies hidden from most people, David does it in an entertaining way, i laughed out loud several times hearing examples of peoples insanely useless jobs from all over the world, but he also backs up his theory with facts. I enjoyed this book so much that this is actually the first book review i've ever written and i'm probably going to listen to it again straight away!.
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- 2021/01/03
Poignant!
Ever more so. Graeber’s contribution is original, hopeful, practical and engaging. Really loved every minute!
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- Gemma
- 2020/12/30
The most important book you'll ever read
Where to begin? It's hard to summarise this book, because everyone should consume it in full. By the end, you will be fulminating against the system that condemns 40% of humanity to total bullshit activity when they could be doing something fun and/or useful. Graeber was one of the most important thinkers in the world, and he will be sorely missed. Honour him by fighting for UBI.
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- JdT
- 2020/08/19
Could be summarised
Sounded too much like a dissertation. I decided to use my time on another book without finishing it.
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- James
- 2020/04/24
Expends his thesis in the first ten minutes
The first ten minutes was illuminating. I started to suspect the author, however, when he said that military IT procedures where an IT worker was needed to move a computer from one room to another, was a BS job. I was military for 26 years, and am well aware that the IT systems in place are specifically because of the existential threat of espionage and cyber warfare. I've seen how easy it would be for an interface surveliance device to be installed or activated while a computer was moved, the need to document the locations of terminals, routes of entry into the networks, and to check for malicious devices that no military person is trained in. I've seen how the entire "Restricted", "Secret"and "Top Secret"networks can be messed up (even rendered unusable) if equipment is moved around without stringent recordkeeping. Plug the wrong interface device into the wrong plug, and secuirty integrity software can make the whole system can go down, grinding entire units to an IT halt. I've seen many a career ruined by inadvertant messing with secure systems that result in potential national security breaches that result in hundreds of hours wasted in investigations. Clearly the author had no idea about the military but i kept going, maybe it's a one-off. The author, however, kept in his merry way. in the next 30 minutes he made so many fallacious arguments including about gender politics, workplace delegation, even ancient/medieval social systems that he clearly hadn't a clue about, that I gave up. And here I am, returning the book. This book should have been a pamphlet. Well performed though.
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- Robin Shannon
- 2018/09/23
Mind fuck
Although it was a bit repetitive in parts, it was, like all of Graeber's books, very interesting. I'm not totally sold on all of it, but it is definitely deserving of a re-read.