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Customers say
Customers find the book informative and educational, providing a great summary of history and technology. They find it easy to read, with factual explanations for many technologies. The narration is described as amazing, making it an enjoyable and light read for long bus rides.
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Just what the doctor ordered
Andy, you finally did it. In the nearly 20 years we’ve been friends, you finally answered my most frequent question. Find me a book that could help a business graduate better understand technology. He not only let me know, but he wrote the book. Written to help engineers better understand the economics of their wares, it helps me better understand the engineers. My first position out of business school was with Honeywell, where I was one of, if not the first, non-engineer to sell electronic components. The results were outstanding, as marketing trumped engineering skills. Andy’s book now helps me with my understanding of technology again as a securities salesman.
Four Stars
Good book. Easy read. A lot of facts and names but presented in a very readable format.
super max
This book is an excellent introduction into the topic of technological progress. Frankly, it is super max.
Great Primer on the American Economy
Mr. Kessler weaves a fantastic narrative describing how technology and markets grew separately and together to create the engine for the dramatic economic material advancement of the modern western world. With the way politicians talk about Wall Street today you would think exchanges and the traders are sucking all the productive capacity out of the labor force, when in fact, those exchanges provide the fuel to allow innovation to realize its massive potential by enabling many investors, small and large, to pull their resources together (and share the risk) to fund very large development and production initiatives.I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in factors that enable productivity growth at the macro level.
Could have been much better.
I really liked this book, it was good, but it could have been much better. The author does a good job telling the story of technology and the stock markets but I think that better editing could have made this book great. To be fair, the subject matter was complex, and to me very interesting, but it did not flow as well as it could have. The author has had many careers and felt that the book should have some humor in it (and I agree) but he is not a stand-up comic and the book could have used less funny business and more serious business. For better examples of just the right amount of lightness to keep the complex readable see books by Hugh MacLeod, Paul B. Brown and the great Henry Petroski.
Not his best work
I’m a fan of Andy Kessler. I’ve read Grumby and Eat People, and I loved both of them. This book seemed a bit disjointed. I feel there were some gaps with the story he was presenting. I plan on reading his other books, but I doubt if I would recommend How We Got Here.
Great story telling about history.
Kessler has the unique ability to tie the history of finance, technology, and Wall Street shenanigans into a great tale. This book would make a great introductory textbook for highschool and college students about “How We Got There”. The book is a fun read, and I learned a great deal about history. The underlying cautionary tale is to remember nothing is new, history just repeats itself; the same mistakes about “this time it is different” occur every time a new technology emerges.
How we got here
This is book is priceless. That is the only term I have for this book, nothing else. It is the book that any college student would want to own in his first year. With Kessler’s amazing narration, one can understand the story of the modern civilization through the industrial revolution.
extremely interesting book, absolutely loved it. It is quote technical however.
Another fun, fast, witty read from Andy Kessler (of Wall Street Meat fame), this time discussing mega trends in technology and the great wealth that stems from step-wise productivity improvements. He explores improvements over the centuries – from the industrial revolution to his unabashed praise of Silicon Valley as the pinnacle of society. There is a lot of overlap between this book and his latest (Eat People), but at the time of writing How We Got Here the author had not yet succumbed to full-blown megalomania, which he exhibits in Eat People.