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I love this book. As well as the beautiful cover illustration and the illustration inside the book itself.
It took me not very long to read as there is not much text, certainly. Well, it's a screenplay, not a novel.
A very good book. Very funny, I enjoyed reading this one. This genetist is such a funny man with his habits and his tries to get a wife.
There are many interesting concepts in this book though some of them are a little bit basic. So if you know generally about design principles you won't learn much new.
I stopped reading this book about 20% in when he had bold statements like that the impact on society is measured by money (NGOs, marginalized groups whose credit was taken, underpaid healthcare workers, anyone?). Also the parts I read went on with highlighting multiple times his (monetary) success and how these principles helped him. The content I skimmed through sent similar to ones found in other self-optimization books (set an ambitious goal, work for it, fail, try harder, etc). The author also did not acknowledge his privilege of growing up as a white male in one of the richest societies world wide. His chances of getting really successful are way higher by birth than by people with less privilege and are thus not really applicable.