Ali
It was a good and amusing read with some geeky humor interspersed along with raw wisdom.
But like many other books (mostly motivational and self help ones) reader should beware of the survivorship bias! This is how Google works, described as clearly and directly as possible, but this is not necessarily how Google turned into a billion(?) dollar company. Many other dead companies have had few or most of such traits but didn't succeed!
So, my advise: apply with care! :)
It was rather short, I am kinda used to living in a SciFi universe, Asimov's Foundations, Clarks' Ramas and Heinlein's Moon colony in Moon is a harsh mistress was portrayed in much more detail.
But nevertheless, it was a good read, had some strange but well tought ideas about society governance and it had the Heilineian touch to it.
I know what I should call myself now, Libertarian Paternalist! Not too liberal, not too restricting and most importantly, non-manipulative!
I like the book and I like the idea of nudging people into better decisions.
... and yet in Iran, we are far from nudging. Government and private sector alike (though in different directions) are shoving people into decisions, which are not necessarily good for them.
It is well written, full with background science and relevant examples.
The general problem with such books is they are mostly best-case or cliché scenarios, where all relevant people are cooperative, company organizations well defined and established and most people internally motivated to get better. Well, that doesn't happen very often in real life, few people approach others (colleagues or managers) with their problems, few entertain an analytic approach to problem solving and even fewer try to systematically resolve their meta problems.
This book has some solid pieces of advice and some recipes to use such advice, but you have a long way to actually incorporating them into your daily life.
There were some painful moments, about individual's social class and cultural heritage, that somehow found it's way to my feels (ouch!)
I guess some of over-generalization can be scrutinized by someone like N.N.Taleb, but it tries to introduce a new perspective that is valuable on it's own, mostly regardless of statistical accuracy of examples.
