A commendable attempt, though at some points lapsing into caustic tones. But also filled with moments of self-awareness.
The title & the marketing set up very high expectations, so my instinct is to give two stars but adding an extra point because the author has attempted a book so far outside the sp ...more
A critique that gets the more general points right, but is very imprecise regarding the technicalities.
When it comes to issues that have been far more mainstream regarding the ills of SV culture, news one may see in a Vice, The Verge, or a Motherboard article, Adrian excels in their analysis. But wh ...more
This has to be one of my favourite reads this year - short and snappy but DENSE with fascinating ideas and perfectly crafted tech culture criticism.
Each of the book’s chapters takes a word commonly used in Silicon Valley (and the associated international startup communities) - such as ‘failure’, ‘di ...more
I read almost all of this on a plane on a day I was off of coffee (should've been in a terrible mood) and this still managed to be fucking incredible, one of my favorite (if not my favorite) tech-critical books i've read yet. this + Voices of the Valley were both great so I'm inclined to read all of ...more
“Anyone who’s gone to college in the United States knows that it can be a scattered experience: random requirements, exciting but seemingly disparate course offerings, choices determined by time conflicts and departmental whims. This is particularly true the first ...more