Ends., Joe Macleod
Ends., Joe Macleod
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Ends.
Why we overlook endings for humans, products, services and digital. And why we shouldn’t.

Author: Joe Macleod

Series: Ends

Narrator: Joe Macleod

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Joe Macleod

Published: 01/11/2019


Synopsis

Ends makes a compelling case that demonstrates how, over centuries, our changing relationship with death has led to the loss of our relationship with endings. Giving rise to guilt-free consumers, an overly-blamed business sector and a society which finds itself at a loss when it needs to grapple with responsibility.Drawing on a plethora of sources in history, sociology, psychology and industry, Ends argues that we are taking the wrong approach to challenging the impact of consumption and that we need to create coherent endings in our product, service and digital experiences to rebalance this. 

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

Fascinating - and deeply frustrating. Joe Macleod thinks we don't think about endings enough. And indeed, he is right that we spend much more time on 'onboarding' than 'offboarding'. How that simple, and correct observation, could sprawl into a sort of 'grand unified theory' running to 242 pages is......more

Goodreads review by ylva

The history (and the present) of consumerism, and how the lack of proper ending in any life cycle is bad for everyone. Depending on your reading style, I might suggest reading few first chapters to stress the issue & it's impact, and dividing the rest of book into smaller pieces to read over time lat......more

Goodreads review by chysbl

I had some pretty big expectations about this book because I attended a workshop about it. The beginning was interesting but as the book goes on it just becomes too repetitive. There were typos in the book as well.........more

Goodreads review by Ashley

This was a very different book than I was expecting - it could have done with some tightening. As a Christian though, I did appreciate the chapter on how religion has influenced how we view endings, waste, etc.......more