While the book certainly is inspiring, I strongly disagree with the sentiment that making is a team sport. Sure it can be, but there is nothing wrong with making by yourself. ( )

This book details one man's journey from someone with two left hands to an accomplished maker.

While this journey is quite interesting and well written, it does not deliver on the promise of its (sub)title, as it contains very little concrete advice on the matter of becoming a maker. All the advice is pretty generic, much of it is rather self-obvious and sometimes it dips its toes into the murky waters of motivational speaking and self-help jargon (YOU can do it!). It is also pretty heavily geared towards wanna-be makers who live in large population centers, where there are makerspaces, hackerspaces, tool-lending libraries and such.

Nevertheless, still a worthy read if you're just starting out, as there is still useful advice in there, especially if you're completely lost on how to start making things. ( )

As excited as i was by this book (Kickstarted it) it's just not that awesome. I've set it aside in my "Abandoned books" category on my Kindle.

The aspects that are the author's story, are pretty inspiring, but the rest is super basic "how to be a maker 101". If you live in or around San Francisco it might be more valuable as all the places he talks about are there, so you could stop in, explore etc on your own. Beyond that it just kinda droned on repeating the same thing over and over with slight twists and anecdotes.

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