The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
The Book Pile
Kellen Erskine and David Vance
4.8 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. What if a simple tool could change your life, and it's not Drake? Today's book is |
| 0:04.9 | The Checklist Manifesto, which if you change five letters becomes the Communist Manifesto. You're |
| 0:11.2 | communist now. And check. I'm Kellynneur's skin. I'm a comic, a father, and before I started |
| 0:20.7 | making a packing checklist, I bought at least seven |
| 0:24.4 | phone chargers in five different states. And I'm David Vance. I found this book to be useful, |
| 0:32.0 | concise, and process-oriented, or what I call a page turner. |
| 0:44.1 | In the checklist manifesto, Atul Gawande shows that a simple checklist can make you much better at your job, |
| 0:47.4 | something I already knew from listening to The Ten Crack Commandments. |
| 0:49.3 | And this is the Book Pile. |
| 0:52.3 | Again, thanks so much to everyone who's left a rating and review. |
| 0:53.5 | We super appreciate it. |
| 0:56.1 | And we'd love for you to leave a review if you haven't. |
| 1:01.4 | Number one, Reader 13 says, Dave and Kellan are so funny and relatable, parentheses, mostly. |
| 1:06.8 | They know exactly the kind of review we like to react to. |
| 1:09.6 | Well, I think it's fine. They're being honest. |
| 1:12.5 | I think it would be weird if everyone who listened to this also was like partially unemployed but also did comedy. |
| 1:21.6 | Wait, which one of us is that? |
| 1:23.3 | That's the riddle. |
| 1:25.9 | It's both. |
| 1:26.7 | That quote I read last week about how Amos Tversky said, |
| 1:29.4 | it's good to be a little underemployed. |
| 1:31.7 | I show that to my girlfriend all the time. |
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