Mă ridic de atâtea ori că am învățat să cad.
— Swisher & Criss Blaziny ‐ Mal
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În deșert de tine nu mi-e sete.
— Swisher
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For Roadmap (a fantastic publication on tech, culture, and work edited by the great @mollitudo) I got to review Kara Swisher's Burn Book, which was a very interesting read that left me struggling with the state of big tech right now, and the complicated idea of a "critical industry insider":
Swisher’s harshest critics—and she’s certainly heard from plenty of them since Burn Book hit shelves—are well within their rights to suggest that she hasn’t merely been an observer of Silicon Valley’s shift, but directly complicit in it. After all, the tech industry we know today didn’t suddenly emerge overnight. But to suggest Swisher hasn’t been a relatively critical insider—with all the limitations that implies—is also ahistorical. And if the memoir finds itself caught within these paradoxes, maybe it’s nothing so much as a perfect encapsulation of Swisher’s career. Because what is left for a self-styled truth-teller if no one in Silicon Valley particularly cares about the truth?
I'm so happy to be back in Roadmap—I got to write about the work of Ellen Ullman for their launch. And I'm working on a piece right now about depictions of tech (and specifically tech ~failure~) on TV!
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