Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science, (Hardcover)

from elbakerone

Best known for his Nobel Prize winning work on helping identify the double helix structure of DNA, scientist James D. Watson presents his autobiography Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science as an anecdote filled instruction manual - chunking off different segments of his career and ...

from Kuiperdolin

Words fail me to transcribe the extent to which Watson, even through a largely self-apologetic book, manages to come across as an especially loathsome individual ; suffice to say there can be no doubt why he is despised and hated by just about everybody who crossed his path. His pointing out grat...

from amarcobio

I enjoyed reading the first half of the book, and I struggled to go through the second half. In any case, it was a good read, and the advices at the end of every chapter are sometimes useful.

from fsmichaels

Loved the title of this book and was excited to pick it up, having read other memoirs of scientists (Richard Feynman, memorably). Found though that this book didn't resonate. Liked the idea of the Remembered Lessons at the end of each chapter but found them unexpectedly uninspiring (e.g. Work on ...

from P_S_Patrick

I've never been a big fan of biographies, one of the things that puts me off is the vanity and self importance usually required in an individual to make them think they are interesting enough for other people to want to read about them, whether they write the book or get someone else to do it. Ho...