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The article was great. The book was insufferable and didn't add substance.


Exactly. Like so many popular non-fiction books these days, there's about 15 pages of content fluffed up with 200 pages of anecdotes to be able to sell it as a book.


Ironically, a bullshit job.


I thought the same of Graeber's book about Debt. It's not a bad book and I feel like I learned something from it but Christ it was like 5x longer than it needed to be and felt very unstructured.




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