Chaos monkeys : obscene fortune and random failure in Silicon Valley

Record details

ISBN: 0062458191
ISBN: 9780062458193
Physical Description: print
xi, 515 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part One: Disturbing the Peace -- The Undertakers of Capitalism -- The Human Attention Exchange -- Knowing How to Swim -- Abandoning the Shipwreck -- Part Two: Pseudorandomness -- Let Me See Your War Face -- Like Marriage, but without the Fucking -- Speed Is a Feature -- D-Day -- A Conclave of Angels -- The Hill of Sand -- Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre -- ¡No Pasarán! -- The Dog Shit Sandwich -- Victory -- Launching! -- Dates @Twitter -- Acquisition Chicken -- Getting Liked -- Getting Poked -- The Various Futures of the Forking Paths -- Retweets Are Not Endorsements -- The Dotted Line -- Endgame -- Part Three: Move Fast and Break Things -- Boot Camp -- Product Masseur -- Google Delenda Est -- Leaping Headlong -- One Shot, One Kill -- Twice Bitten, Thrice Shy -- Ads Five-Oh -- The Narcissism of Privacy -- Are We Savages or What? -- O Death -- The Barbaric Yawn -- Going Public -- When the Flying Saucers Fail to Appear -- Monetizing the Tumor -- The Great Awakening -- Barbarians at the Gates -- IPA > IPO -- Initial Public Offering: A Reevaluation -- Flash Boys -- Full Frontal Facebook -- Microsoft Shrugged -- Ad Majorem Facebook Gloriam -- Adió, Facebook -- Pandemonium Lost.
Summary, etc.:	"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent expose of life inside the tech bubble that traces his hedonist lifestyle against a backdrop of early social media and online marketing, sharing critical insights into how they are shaping today's world,"--NoveList.