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Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by txcwpalpha on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:50AM (#17520582)
I can't second the recommendation of Bad Blood enough. I couldn't put it down. Every chapter I thought "surely I've reached the bottom of the rabbit hole now. It CANT get any crazier than this", but then it always did.

Aside from being a really enthralling and interesting story about one of SV's darling unicorns, it was also really eye opening into the absurdity of the amount of money that gets thrown around willy-nilly in SV, and how the bandwagon/FOMO effect just makes it worse. I won't say anything more because it's better to just read the book, but this is one of those stories that is almost endlessly fascinating.

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Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by freehunter on Friday July 13, 2018 @10:25AM (#17523192)
Does anyone have a recommendation on a good book around the DotCom era? I was too young and too far removed from the tech world at the time to know much about it, and I've had a hard time finding anything that could transport me back to that era. What were the offices like, what was everyone doing, what languages/tooling were they using, what was the feel? There are plenty of books I see recommended that talk about SV today but what was it like 20 years ago?
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Re:Ask HN: 2018 Summer Reading List? by misiti3780 on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:05PM (#17525248)
you may enjoy this one: https://www.amazon.com/New-Thing-Silicon-Valley-Story/dp/039...
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