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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,954
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,712
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,714
The full inside story of the breathtaking rise and shocking collapse of a multibillion-dollar start-up, by the prize-winning journalist who first broke the story and pursued it to the end. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose start-up ‘unicorn’ promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would make blood tests significantly faster and easier.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You will never want to stop listening to this masterpiece.
- By Kathleen on 28-07-2019
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- By: John Carreyrou
- Narrated by: Will Damron
Could not stop listening...and I’m supposed to be studying for exams
Reviewed: 19-12-2020
Don’t know anything about medicine, blood tests, Silicon Valley... but you don’t need to. This is a character driven story of monumental fraud and the ability of a charmer to deceive with a pleasant surface over substance. The shame all those people should feel.. the lawyers whose actions were based on their own hope of windfall stock and the terrible realisation that ultimately its the tax payers of America who will pay... Murdoch’s $100 million loss just for a start.. is an indictment on so many aspects of American society. Loved it.
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Loving What Is
- Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
- By: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
- Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 203
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 205
Out of nowhere, like a fresh breeze in a marketplace crowded with advice on what to believe, comes Byron Katie and what she calls "The Work". In the midst of a normal life, Katie became increasingly depressed. Then one morning, she woke up in a state of absolute joy, filled with the realization of how her own suffering had ended. The freedom of that realization has never left her, and now, in Loving What Is, you can discover the same freedom through The Work.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Victim blaming
- By Anonymous User on 09-09-2019
- Loving What Is
- Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
- By: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
- Narrated by: Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell
Unbearable saccharine voice. Mumbo jumbo oogedy boogedy.
Reviewed: 13-10-2020
I found the readers voice unbearably grating. All of the honeys and sweeties were just too much. However I pushed on.. willing to use the ‘work’ if it ‘works.’ I find it is quite a lot like NA and AA. Where there is a big focus on taking personal responsibility for everything. This works for people who have spent their whole life playing the victim, when they are really responsible. But what about actual victims? I’m not so sure how good it is for them. I have known a lot of people who behave badly and take no responsibility but they also would never bother reading or doing the work on a book like this... also like NA and AA, where the worst people are the ones not actually doing the responsibility taking... to me it seems like the ones who SHOULD be.. don’t. And the ones who DON’T.. should but never will. I think, as others have said.. might be good for people with minor problems, or relatively benign issues... but serious abuse from childhood? I don’t think it’s appropriate for that. Not qualified or educated. The epiphany of a woman. This book is the epitome of New Age. Can work, just like a placebo can.
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The End of Gender
- Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
- By: Debra Soh
- Narrated by: Debra Soh
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 46
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Story5 out of 5 stars 45
Is our gender something we’re born with, or are we conditioned by society? In The End of Gender, neuroscientist and sexologist Dr. Debra Soh uses a research-based approach to address this hot-button topic, unmasking popular misconceptions about the nature vs. nurture debate and exploring what it means to be a woman or a man in today’s society.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A much needed scientific voice in an ideological crisis
- By David on 19-08-2020
- The End of Gender
- Debunking the Myths About Sex and Identity in Our Society
- By: Debra Soh
- Narrated by: Debra Soh
Excellent- science rocks
Reviewed: 21-08-2020
Excellent, informative, scientific, balanced, not hateful or cruel but also, not bogus. Just right; like the temperature of the baby bear’s porridge. Points out the logical reasoning flaws of some activists arguments, but also, points out that historically ‘outlier’ people have been poorly treated. Just because something is not biological doesn’t mean we should be mean or not treat people fairly. I Particularly like the highlighting of the difference between arts theory and scientific theory. Science theories start as a hypothesis, then an experiment (preferably validly constructed) and ends with a theory to explain the results. Arts theories are more: “I reckon that blah blah blah..... and I will back up this theory of mine by referencing Dr Me (my own book, written last year) as well as the book I wrote in ‘96, and ‘84 and that bloke Dr Lucky Fields..”