The Unfair Advantage and Its Deeper Meaning

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference” - Reinhold Niebuhr

This book again was recommended to me by YouTuber Ruri Ohama. Other creators such as Ali Abdaal were hyping it up as well so I decided to give it a shot. Was the hype worth it? Kinda.

A lot of the information in this book kind of went over my head. I read it in two days but it felt like I couldn’t distill much information from it. The MILES framework is useful for identifying what you got, but it doesn’t really give you a direction where to go.

Also, the people who made this book are the owners of GrubHub or for those in the UK JustEat. This is the company in multiple lawsuits for stealing from customers, employees, and restaurant owners through lying about fees and exploiting immigrant workers.

Life is unfair, I knew this before reading the book. So when I read it I didn’t have that emotional reaction that I think it was going for. It assumed that the reader was someone who was naïve or down on their luck which is the case for some, but I am not in this audience.

Lets be honest, an unfair advantage might be one’s willingness to lie to their consumers or their ability to cheat their way to the top.

They forget to mention this and focus on the feel good. Great for someone naïve, but tell me about the worst cases of people being in power.

Zuckerberg, who they put on a pedestal, absolutely f***** over his partners, same with Jobs and the other entrepreneurs they mention.

Understand the surface level and deeper meaning behind this book. It’s a good surface level read, but understand that there’s more to it than meets the eye.