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Tech Veterans Will Wish Kara Swisher’s New Book Brought Greater Heat

By Adam Lashinsky · Feb 24, 2024 5:00am PST · 11 comments
Anyone uninitiated in the glories and ignominies of Silicon Valley will delight in “Burn Book: A Tech Love Story,” Kara Swisher’s memoir-cum-history of Silicon Valley’s internet era. It presents a thorough accounting of the people, companies and trends within technology from the 1990s onward, told through the bombastic,... Anyone uninitiated in the glories and ignominies of Silicon Valley will delight in “Burn...
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If You’re Ripping Michael Lewis’ Book on Sam Bankman-Fried, You’re Reading It Wrong

By Adam Lashinsky · Oct 14, 2023 6:00am PDT · 12 comments
My hopes and dreams when I tucked into “Going Infinite,” Michael Lewis’ controversial book about Sam Bankman-Fried, were the same as they always are when reading our foremost chronicler of financial renegades and miscreants. First, I wanted to be entertained by Lewis’ honeyed prose and syrupy storytelling—the snappy... My hopes and dreams when I tucked into “Going Infinite,” Michael Lewis’...
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The Trouble With Walter: In His Elon Musk Tome, the Writer Shows Us the Perils of Access Journalism

By Adam Lashinsky · Sep 16, 2023 6:00am PDT · 75 comments
Walter Isaacson is the exotic bird of American letters, a charming and convivial bon vivant and raconteur, the life of many a dinner party, a studious biographer and a generous mentor. He blurbed both of my books, a kindness he’s bestowed on many authors, and he has been nothing but kind and gracious to me over the years. Unfortunately,... Walter Isaacson is the exotic bird of American letters, a charming and convivial bon vivant and...