I read that book, and as I recall it takes a left turn into education policy after chapter one. Part 1 sells you a story of personalization over one size fits a

I read that book, and as I recall it takes a left turn into education policy after chapter one. Part 1 sells you a story of personalization over one size fits all, and the next parts tell you how individuals vary, mostly in ways understood by educators, and emphasizing the authors personal story of getting a PhD as a high school dropout and how to remove barriers to educational attainment. It's probably a fine book if education policy is your jam, and its fine for scholars to publish monographs on their research but I felt a bit mislead given the title and PR excerpts. For example, maybe an examination of Average Treatment Effect and Individual Treatment Effect in medicine, and followed by an adventure into causal reasoning. Or perhaps a treatment on diminishing returns of personalization. And perhaps if the "how we succeed" portion investigated productivity instead of defining success as getting a degree from Harvard. As software designers we come to recognize that there's diminishing returns on customization in our software, and develop hierarchies of customization -- commonly adjusted settings are easily found, and others may be dotfile / envvar / registry only. There's probably a happy medium between Apple inspired "it just works" philosophy and Gentoo's 'every software custom built' approach.