Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.”— Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times“Eye-popping.”— Vanity
Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.”— Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times“Eye-popping.”— Vanity FairLiar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a former Twitter advisor, Facebook product manager and startup founder/CEO.The reality is, Silicon Valley capitalism is very simple:Investors are people with more money than time.Employees are people with more time than money.Entrepreneurs are the seductive go-between.Marketing is like sex: only losers pay for it. Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering ever
While there may be a little TMI for the casual reader, there are enough specific scenes and characters – Sheryl Sandberg included, of course -- that, geek or not, you can’t help but be fascinated. This is not a whodunit (we know who did – Zuckerberg, those rowing twins, and assorted Harvard frenemies) so much as a procedural, a chronicle by the data-guru who was eventually forced out of Facebook (he went to Twitter) – but not before gathering some pretty interesting social data of his own: about Zuckerberg, about other Silicon valley “chaos monkeys,” and about the culture that spawned all of them. An Best Book of July 2016: If you think you know the back-story of the founding of Facebook because you saw The Social Network, think again: Antonio Garcia Martinez’s Chaos Monkeys tells a more complete and sometimes darkThe exposition of complex systems are described using appropriate, and facile metaphors. "The Essential Theodore Roosevelt" brings together twenty-four of TR's most significant writings and speeches. To them I say "grow up" put on your big boy/girl pants and read this for the story. Despite several bits of self justification he doesn't place himself above others. The speech he gave after being shot commands summons the scene to the reader's mind's eye.As followers of my [] reviews are aware, I have read extensively on Theodore Roosevelt. Often a work not detailed in this book (the first of a four-volume catalogue raisonnee) is referred to for comparison, but is not illustrated, or is shown in a postage-stamp size picture (example: a lot is told about the models for Carnation Lily Lily Rose, but the repro itself is about 1" square, and impossible to see in detail. My husband told me about it. The faces leap off the page, sometimes "more alive than the sitters themselves." The short essays about the creation of each work, the life of- Title : Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
- Author : Antonio Garcia Martinez
- Rating : 4.82 (233 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-10-19
- Format : Hardcover
- Pages : 528 Pages
- Asin : 0062458191
- Language : English
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