Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Let My People Go Surfing

The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

2005 • 272 pages

Ratings18

Average rating4.1

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Ben SaufleySupporter

There's some interesting stuff here but it's shoved between hypocritical self-aggrandizement (so much disdain for “businessmen” while simultaneously describing himself as the same thing in different words), weird takes on science (in one breath bragging for creating polyester garments; in the next ranting about the risks of nuclear power and GMOs), and company promotion. Some thoughts about what a business can do to be responsible in the modern world, some thoughts about what humankind can do to stem the tides of climate change ... these were good things. But they were delivered in weird patches and at times filled with assertions that made many assumptions I wasn't willing to make.

He has a weird relationship with science. And he says “dirtbag” a lot in a context that I'd never heard before, but I guess that's a thing.

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