Linchpin

Decent idea for the thesis: make yourself indispensable to survive in the current economy. But the book is mostly boring filler as far as I could tell.

My main takeaway from the book (though there is plenty of other good advice, too) is that if you want to be something more than a robotic worker doing boring work, you have to connect with people and do more than what's in your job description: be human. His ultimate thesis that art is something that needs to be given freely and without expectation of recompense is something that is probably not an obvious answer to the problem of being unsatisfied with your job.

I would recommend it to any young individual whom is starting to whine about unfairness and lack of opportunity in the world.

I recommend Cal Newport's So Good They Can't Ignore You instead. And also his more recent book Deep Work.