Popular not because of content. Popular because of how the talks are designed: overcoming, motivation, being in the know of whats happening on some frontier, etc.. Belongs to the same category books about managing fall into.

Sporadic at best the gems are very good, but you have to slough through some fairly mundane crap.

Lacks discursivity and critical angle and therefore depth but if you take it for what it is there's some use to it. Some of the points and issues seemed trivial to the point of nonsense for me but others were interesting.