Anna

This book’s typesetting was gorgeous! Large, legible print on appealing pages.

I assumed it was a self-help book when I saw the title. It turns out it’s a business book—and a good one at that.

Super quick read (few pages, big letters). I know I’ll need to come back to it often to instill the teachings into my head.

I actually started this way back in 2021… Then I chickened out once I reached the chapter on JavaScript. (I needn’t be afraid.) Fast forward to January 2023, when I needed to learn some JavaScript fast, and I finished it in two days.

This book definitely supercharged my confidence in coding and it was genuinely fun to read! That said, it’s full of typos and even has some omissions. I’d expect someone would have corrected those, since it’s a paid guide.

I wasn’t aware of the controversy surrounding Jordan Peterson when I started reading this book, but still noticed how he seemed to present some of his personal opinions as scientific fact (e.g. supposedly innate psychological difference between men and women), even though in most other cases he uses references to base his arguments on.

Despite its flaws, this is a good book, because it makes you think about various topics which we don’t usually discuss.

I'll mention I’m quite anti-religion and while all the Bible references bothered me a lot initially, it was interesting reading the author’s interpretation of them.

“Power is not a means, it is an end.”

Extremely well written and gripping. But it also made me sick and, at times, prevented me from falling asleep.

“To die hating them, that was freedom.”

Incredibly well-written and captivating from the very first page. If you’d told me 3 months ago that an auto-biography would be among my favorite books ever, I would have laughed, but here we are. I highlighted over 20.000 words and feel a renewed drive to live and try things.