Agreed, this book is not useful
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I read the book last weekend. My wife had purchased it after hearing all the hype from some friends, and in my opinion, this book represents the worst sort of new-age-self-help drivel that we've seen a lot of in the last decade or so.
While it pretends to be a scholarly treatment of a useful phenomenon, as the reviewer notes, the end result is ambiguous. Should you trust your intuition more or less? Well, only if you're mostly right! How can you know?
Like many of the self-help courses and books that clutter modern bookstores, there's no useful methodology here - just half an insight without any real guidance on how to apply it.
Yes, it's insightful to discover that some people have better intuition than others. And it's not much of a stretch to discover that (for instance) some subject matter experts have better insights in their subject areas.
What's missing in this book is how to do any of the things that might flow from the initial insight:
(1) Learn how to inprove your intuition in your own area of subject matter expertise.
(2) Learn how to test your intuition in various areas of SME so that you can know when to rely on it and when to not do so.
(3) Learn how to develop reliable intuition in new SME areas.
Without any of these, this entire book is nothing more than an extended foreward for the book that should have been written.
Re:ROR!!! LOL!!!111 President Bush Reads a Book!!!
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Actually, No. President Bush did not read this book, but Karl Rove sure did.
I was a member of the 802.11 comittee and sat on the IR PHY as well as the MAC subcomittee. The IR PHY was actually the first to get passed into the draft, ahead of the radio guys.
At the time, we approved a 1 and 2Mbps phy, and I was aware of other companies/universities working on 4, 10 and 16Mbps higher rate IR PHY. The company I was at, Photonics (now gone) was working on a 10Mbps product. IBM and Photonics both had 1Mbps IR LAN product in the market at that time (roughly 1994 or so).
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I read the book last weekend. My wife had purchased it after hearing all the hype from some friends, and in my opinion, this book represents the worst sort of new-age-self-help drivel that we've seen a lot of in the last decade or so.
While it pretends to be a scholarly treatment of a useful phenomenon, as the reviewer notes, the end result is ambiguous. Should you trust your intuition more or less? Well, only if you're mostly right! How can you know?
Like many of the self-help courses and books that clutter modern bookstores, there's no useful methodology here - just half an insight without any real guidance on how to apply it.
Yes, it's insightful to discover that some people have better intuition than others. And it's not much of a stretch to discover that (for instance) some subject matter experts have better insights in their subject areas.
What's missing in this book is how to do any of the things that might flow from the initial insight:
(1) Learn how to inprove your intuition in your own area of subject matter expertise.
(2) Learn how to test your intuition in various areas of SME so that you can know when to rely on it and when to not do so.
(3) Learn how to develop reliable intuition in new SME areas.
Without any of these, this entire book is nothing more than an extended foreward for the book that should have been written.
Actually, No. President Bush did not read this book, but Karl Rove sure did.
I was a member of the 802.11 comittee and sat on the IR PHY as well as the MAC subcomittee. The IR PHY was actually the first to get passed into the draft, ahead of the radio guys.
At the time, we approved a 1 and 2Mbps phy, and I was aware of other companies/universities working on 4, 10 and 16Mbps higher rate IR PHY. The company I was at, Photonics (now gone) was working on a 10Mbps product. IBM and Photonics both had 1Mbps IR LAN product in the market at that time (roughly 1994 or so).