Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

I recommend to anyone who would like to know about the tech world, but especially anyone who's had a career in tech for the last 30 years. That is me. I worked in this tech world for the last 30 years (recently retired) and I liked the stories in the book and was able to visualize it due to personal experiences in the space. I have recommended it to several in my network as a good read.

fantastic book provides an excellent insight to the way many of the owners of top it companies think and work

You can't have an informed opinion about social media, tech companies, or billionaire-bros without understanding whence they came. This book will give you the context you need.

I'm only into the second chapter so far, but yeah, it's great. Witty, intelligent, searing, etc, etc. The bit about John McLaughlin and the toast buttering in Chapter Two is worth the price of admission all by itself.Later note: It really needs a glossary. I'm half way through the book, and I finally figured out that VC stands for venture capital and not Viet Cong. (well, I knew it wasn't the latter, but that was all that came into my head).And another later note: On p.219, the year 2021 is given instead of 2019. Given that this section is all about the Jan 6th insurrection, it's weird that an editor wouldn't have caught this prior to publication.And yet another later note: The book REALLY needs an index. A couple of times just in the last few weeks I ran across names (Marc Andreesen and Nicole Shanahan) in either other publications or the news, and thought it would be nice to cross-reference Swisher's thoughts with others.

Very interesting and insightful perspectives regarding computer technology, their creators and development of the internet. As told by a superbly competent investigative journalist who witnessed this history being made ... and of whom we have far too few in the world today. Enjoyable read!