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Optimal Illusions
- The False Promise of Optimization
- By: Coco Krumme
- Narrated by: Coco Krumme
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 16
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Story4 out of 5 stars 16
Optimization is the driving principle of our modern world. We now can manufacture, transport, and organize things more cheaply and faster than ever. Optimized models underlie everything from airline schedules to dating site matches. We strive for efficiency in our daily lives, obsessed with productivity and optimal performance. How did a mathematical concept take on such outsize cultural shape? And what is lost when efficiency is gained? Optimal Illusions traces the fascinating history of optimization from its roots in America’s founding principles to its modern manifestations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting storytelling and sharp social criticism
- By DJD on 01-03-25
- Optimal Illusions
- The False Promise of Optimization
- By: Coco Krumme
- Narrated by: Coco Krumme
Went to hammer school, now everything is a nail.
Reviewed: 11-21-23
It’s not easy to write a book or to read it. For the performance a good clear microphone was used, that’s good. But, EVERY SENTeNce STaRts out LOUD and then fads to normal speech. This becomes very annoying, especially listening in the car as the soft end of the sentence is hard to hear. The book should be run through a dynamic compression to lessen this problem.
Optimization is seen by the author as an end to itself, it’s is not, but rather a tool to help the user get what they want, who ever they may be. To complain that a tool is the root of the problem and not the user is the most shallow understanding of what is going on.
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Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 180,093
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 158,999
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Story5 out of 5 stars 157,975
I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love this!
- By Nancy on 10-21-20
- Greenlights
- By: Matthew McConaughey
- Narrated by: Matthew McConaughey
Not read, Performed!
Reviewed: 02-17-23
McConaughey does not “read” his book, he performs it. The delivery of every word follows from the previous with all the tone and emotion of a performance.
Great story and great life advice.
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