Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley by Corey Pein
Requirements: .MP3 reader, 230 MB
Overview: A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit. This enlightening audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested or involved in the tech industry.
At the height of the start-up boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. Determined to cut through the clichés of big tech – the relentless optimism, the mandatory enthusiasm, and the earnest, incessant repetition of vacuous buzzwords – Pein decided that he would need to take an approach as unorthodox as the companies he would soon be covering. To truly understand the delirious reality of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he knew, he would have to inhabit that perspective – he would have to become an entrepreneur.
Thus he begins his journey – skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors, and interviewing a cast of outrageous characters: cyborgs and con artists, Teamsters and transhumanists, jittery hackers and naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers – who work endlessly and obediently, never thinking to question their place in the system.
Genre: Audiobooks > Non-Fiction
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