Initially, about Brexit.

The first part presents how bad is the world with neo-populists around the world and how we should not generalise and criticise politics. Not very positive.

The second part is an invitation to participate in politics, campaigning.

I watched an interview, or listened to it, and I bought the Audiobook.

Scary story of egos: Musk, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Wojciech Zaremba, Andrej Karpathy, Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei.

Timnit Gebru fired from Google for wanting to publish a research paper, and justified becasue she was not using internal data. Margaret Mitchell.

I was expecting more references to water. I didn’t like that it was a man-hunt on Sam Altman, regardless of all his flaws.

It surprised me the relationship with his two brothers (working with him) and with her sister, who even accused him of sexual abuse.

References to drugs all over the place (eg. Sam using ketamine because it was prescribed for depression). Also a Polish member organising trecks with the plan to have sex. And the reference to abusive companies in Kenia and Venezuela was over-emphasised.

I liked to listen to the story, instead of reading it, and I liked the author-reader, but it was too negative, too targetted, and sometimes I felt I could not believe the author.

I bought it with extra credits after a subscription and I selected it because it was a best seller: their marketing was good.

I was shocked about the basics of the proposal. The author, a motivational speaker, explains the story of his youngest son preparing for the prom ball. Her daughters, already in the Uni, had prepared for the prom for months in advance, dress, dinner, and everything, and his son decided the week before, and the very day of the event it was raining. The author wanted to fix the situation and one daughter was telling her “let them, let them”.

She realised that she had to release control, posted something in social media, and it went viral. Some people started messaging her and even posting tattoos with “Let Them”. Then she decided to publish a book.

The idea of the control, “let them” and “let me” is superficial and basic, but it seems it has worked for many people. She uses the idea for neighbours, politics, career, family, and everything.

I liked listening to the author, sometimes emotional, and sharing personal stories.

Beautiful voice and beautiful narration. The beginning contains the mythology of the creation of the world and it is full humour and connections to the language. The second part is disjointed with some random stories.

But is an excellent audiobook and I would not mind having the book.