Silicon Valley's thing about Great Men - by Henry Farrell
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[detail from storyboard for The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan] I’ve a new piece in Bloomberg Weekend on DOGE and the books that have shaped Silicon Valley’s understanding of itself. The article is now behind a paywall, but the publishers are fine with me eventually (i.e: in a couple of months) publishing it here. As a temporary substitute, here’s the broad argument, and the reason why I wrote it. The Bloomberg piece argues that there is a deep connection between the books that have come to shape Silicon Valley culture and the disasters that are unfolding thanks to Elon Musk. It starts from last…
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