Kind of the Story of My Life
by Scott Adams
Recommended by 7 notable people, including Naval Ravikant and Nat Eliason
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See customer reviews on Amazon →Scott Adams blends memoir, workplace humor, and blunt self-help into short, punchy chapters that push simple career and productivity rules. The most useful material is pragmatic: a preference for systems over one-off goals, combining complementary skills, and managing energy so work fits a schedule you can sustain. Limits show up as confident, anecdote-heavy claims and a swaggering tone that sometimes repeats the same points. Best used selectively: skim for tactics that feel practical and ignore the rest rather than accept everything wholesale.
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Scott Adams has likely failed at more things than anyone you?ve ever met or anyone you?ve even heard of. So how did he go from hapless office worker and serial failure to the creator of Dilbert, one of the world?s most famous syndicated comic strips, in just a few years In How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Adams shares the strate...
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Recommended by 10 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant, Most Recommended Books, and Personal Development.
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Consider Propaganda by Edward Bernays. Recommended by 7 sources.
“Bernays writes in a brisk, programmatic voice that reads like a practitioner's manual: short case sketches, tactical prescriptions, and candid justifications for shaping mass opinion. The most useful section maps concrete techniques and the rhetoric used to normalize coordinated publicity, which is handy for historical comparison or classroom debate. The main limits are tone and dated examples: managerial certainty leaves little ethical pushback and some passages feel uncomfortably directive. No exercises or modern scientific framing are provided; better read slowly with a critical pen.”
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