Douglas C. Merrill

Maybe I could have used the time actually ORGANIZING something instead of reading a lot of words to give tips - some already well-known, a few interesting insights or phrased in a more compelling way, and some that are already outdated by the constant changes in our internet and Google world.
Could have been much more concise and outlined to be, indeed, helpful.
Interesting guy, but wasn't sure if his humor was worth the time it took to read through.
Maybe he as author and me as reader could have spent our time doing something more productive than dwelling on a "How to".
However, unless a book is impossible . . .I'm determined to FINISH it.
Some will find it helpful. Just wasn't for me.… (mehr)

This book is awful. It appears written for a twelve year old. The author explains the simplest things in nauseous detail. How large would the rock have had to be that the reader has been living under to need a basic explanation of a Day Timer? He keeps referring to the important things he's told the reader when those thing were the simplest mindless crap. This should have been published as one of those books for dummies. It is not something one would expect from an ex-CIO of Google who has a PHD in cognitive science from Princeton. His first chapter was interesting but thats it. Everything said in the whole book could have been written in a three page article.… (mehr)