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Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition

Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

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Chaos Monkeys - Revised Edition

Auteur(s): Antonio Garcia Martinez
Narrateur(s): Dan John Miller
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The instant New York Times best seller, now featuring a new afterword from the author - the insider's guide to the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica scandal, the inner workings of the tech world, and who really runs Silicon Valley.

Imagine a chimpanzee rampaging through a datacenter powering everything from Google to Facebook. Infrastructure engineers use a software version of this “chaos monkey” to test Online services’ robustness - their ability to survive random failure and correct mistakes before they actually occur. Tech entrepreneurs are society’s chaos monkeys. One of Silicon Valley’s most audacious chaos monkeys is Antonio García Martínez.

After stints on Wall Street and as CEO of his own startup, García Martínez joined Facebook’s nascent advertising team. Forced out in the wake of an internal product war over the future of the company’s monetization strategy, García Martínez eventually landed at rival Twitter. In Chaos Monkeys, this gleeful contrarian unravels the chaotic evolution of social media and online marketing and reveals how it is invading our lives and shaping our future.

©2016, 2018 Antonio Garcia Martinez (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers Affaires Commerce électronique Professionnels et universitaires

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“Incisive... The most fun business book I have read this year... Clearly there will be people who hate this book - which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” (Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times)

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I originally learned of this book after hearing the author on Sam Harris' podcast, telling the story of how Apple caved to a small group of whiny social justice warriors, having him fired for a few passages within. That was definitely not what should have happened to him but if you want to learn about many of the things that should terrify you about the Silicon Valley tech giants that increasingly rule our lives, this is definitely the book for you. It's a tale of one of the brilliant, innovative, selfish, sociopathic, greedy bros that dominate the region. Singularly focused not on true innovation or serving the greater good but only on their own benefit and enrichment, even at the expense of friendships, family, children, morals or ethics.

You will be simultaneously fascinated and enraged by its protagonist, as they participate in one of the most deplorable industries on the Internet, the advertising machine. Constantly defending their practices and blowing off the myriad ethical failings, privacy violations and eroding of decency that social media is creating. In one part of the book, he'll talk about how people who thinks Facebook sells user data are crazy, then in another part, will literally talk about how Facebook was doing exactly that. He even downplays Facebook's involvement in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which mountains of the data they supposedly take so seriously, was used by a company to literally help fix elections. He blows off all of the studies and well informed critics of the company and their well researched work on the failings of Facebook because hey, he got his.

Based on what I've just said, you might think I hate this book but it's quite the opposite. I can't stand the people the author represents and the technological, corporate controlled dystopia they're rapidly hurling us towards but it's fascinating to listen to their thought processes and what drives them to do what they do. It should serve as a huge cautionary tale about who is now in charge of our data and how little they care for keeping it private and secure, as long as it serves their interest.

Listen to this, learn from it and if you take only one lesson from it, take this one: Quit Facebook.

Diary of a Tech Bro

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I really enjoyed this book. Such insights into Silicon Valley and the tech world. Kept my attention. Plenty of inside information not previously revealed. If you listen to the audiobook, keep listening to the very end, as the author is interviewed. I thought the question “do you need/have protection” was particularly revealing. Recommended.

Fascinating

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Amazing Bare it all honest to the bone style of writing. I am so surprised that he had the strength to say it all.

Bare it all

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