Review: Useless
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 9, 2013
Here is the bottom line on this book: it doesn't contain a single piece of concrete, actionable advice. Period. If you are looking for a book that will help you start an independent career away from the corporate world, then this book is not it. There are a lot of books out there that are promising more or less the same thing, making it big or even just making a living on your own, by working from home or through some other similar route. Most of those books provide you at least some concrete advice in terms of which particular resources to use, which career paths are open to you, or what are the main obstacles that you will face. This book has almost none of it. The author spends the bulk of the book recounting his own life experience, mostly through ups and downs of the Silicon Valley boom and bust cycles. Some of it is pretty interesting, but even these parts of the book lack much concrete detail and substance. Most of the book feels like one long angry rant against the traditional career paths. The best I can say about this book is that it could be used as a "motivational" text if you are considering getting "unplugged," but my guess is that if you've as much as decided to take a look at this book, and have made it this far in my review, you don't need any additional motivation when it comes to wanting to leave your day job. What you need is concrete help on how to achieve it. And this book is not it.