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Wonderful book - Carlo Rovelli sure knows how to frame a narrative around serious contemporary physics concepts. Masterfully explained, very engaging. I picked this up from an art exhibition about Time, was quite a random buy but one of the most surprising reads.

Although I haven't been the top student in my class in physics I've always been drawn to it. Contemporary physics is so weird and complicated that I had no hopes of ever understanding any of it. That's where Feynman steps in. Reading complex formulas and accepting the ambiguity of how things work is only possible if it's explained like Feynman explains it. You're not being underestimated, but you feel cared for. And most importantly, you end up understanding things you'd never dreamt of ever understanding.

This is a useful read if you want to learn to better communicate within a company or startup. Or with people in general I guess. I liked the practical examples from Kim Scott's career.

Startup culture tends to encourage a sugar-coated form of communication. In many cases that doesn't tend to be very useful. In some it can even be frustrating. I can tell from experience.

This book shows another approach that gets the message across, while being fair and not hurting other people's feelings. If you're running a startup, you should definitely read it. Much of it shows examples from well-established companies but everything applies.

What I felt was in some cases was that some pieces of advice were a bit evident to me. Instead of pages and pages of method, it could have been a paragraph describing what's wrong. Could be useful to others, though.