hilarious nameless descriptions of tech companies everyone knows: 1) “an online superstore that had gotten its start in the nineties by selling books on the World Wide Web” 2) “a search-engine giant down in Mountain View” 3) “a renowned seed accelerator in Mountain View”
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descriptions of various people in SF: 1) “nascent neomillionaire class” 3) CEO: “fast-moving, confident, and chiseled”; CTO: “a soft-spoken systems thinker” 4) “two underage students with one Silicon Valley internship between them, and a smart, practical, easily pivotable dream”
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5) “An autodidact, he hadn’t graduated high school, but he could single-handedly design the sort of complex database infrastructure that, elsewhere, would have taken a team of experienced computer scientists. I didn’t know whether this was hyperbolic, but it didn’t matter”
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read uncanny valley if you want to witness anna wiener describe HN as the “raw male id of the industry, a Greek chorus of the perpetually online”pic.twitter.com/3SmR8z5BhR
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i am so excited to read this book
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are you in any book clubs, and if not can you/we start one?
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