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Future Perfect: The Case for Progress in a Networked Age

by Steven Johnson  · 14 Jul 2012  · 184pp  · 53,625 words

with the Securities and Exchange Commission, justifying and describing its plans for an initial public offering. The document included a revealing letter from Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, outlining the company’s core mission and warning potential shareholders that the company would prioritize that long-term mission over short-term opportunities to increase

Ethics of Big Data: Balancing Risk and Innovation

by Kord Davis and Doug Patterson  · 30 Dec 2011  · 98pp  · 25,753 words

if our identity is multifaceted, then it’s likely that our values and ethical relationship to identity are also multifaceted. Expressing a seemingly opposing view, Mark Zuckerberg recently made the assertion that having more than one identity demonstrates a “lack of integrity” (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/technology/14facebook.html

Lying

by Sam Harris  · 31 Aug 2011  · 39pp  · 9,543 words

headquarters of Facebook on my cellphone: “Hello, this is Sam Harris. I’m calling from the White House, and I’d like to speak to Mark Zuckerberg.” My words would, in a narrow sense, be true—but the statement seems calculated to deceive. Would I be lying? Close enough. To lie is

This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare

by Gabourey Sidibe  · 14 Apr 2017  · 204pp  · 73,747 words

at election time which of your family members are racist. Everything anyone has ever written on Facebook has to be 100 percent true. If not, Mark Zuckerberg has to punch a sloth in the face. He doesn’t want to, but those are the rules. (You can tell this is sarcasm, right

With Liberty and Dividends for All: How to Save Our Middle Class When Jobs Don't Pay Enough

by Peter Barnes  · 31 Jul 2014  · 151pp  · 38,153 words

it’s on top of the liquidity premium that accrues simply from enlarging the universe of potential stock buyers. It’s what enables people like Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, to become billionaires before they’re thirty. And that’s not all. Large chunks of many fortunes come from sources less visible

Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism

by Fumio Sasaki  · 10 Apr 2017  · 167pp  · 49,719 words

turtleneck by Issey Miyake, Levi’s 501s, and a pair of New Balance sneakers, which even served as his attire for public presentations. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg seems to be fond of a gray T-shirt. Einstein is said to have always worn the same type of jacket. These people took the

, it’s possible to create more time and focus on the important things if we consider personal uniforms. Steve Jobs had his black turtleneck, and Mark Zuckerberg has his gray T-shirt. They agreed that it’s a waste of time selecting which clothes you want to wear. They would rather spend

Designing for the Social Web

by Joshua Porter  · 18 May 2008  · 201pp  · 21,180 words

to do something. Figure 5.15 The protest group “Students Against Facebook News Feed” was created and grew within the very framework it was protesting. Mark Zuckerberg, the twenty-two-year-old CEO of Facebook, had a response for them. He wrote a blog post telling everyone to “calm down,” pointing out

the news feed features was actually new. The only difference was that now all that information had been aggregated into one place. Figure 5.16 Mark Zuckerberg’s first attempt at calming down the masses during the news feed blowup. Telling people to “calm down” while not addressing their concerns is not

Conscience of a Conservative: A Rejection of Destructive Politics and a Return to Principle

by Jeff Flake  · 31 Jul 2017  · 138pp  · 43,748 words

quoted a former Facebook “news curator” who said that conservative viewpoints were sometimes “black-listed,” which, if true, was a very disturbing allegation. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg denied the claim but, recognizing the seriousness of the issue, convened a roundtable in May 2016 with conservative media figures, including Glenn Beck, S. E

of the Conservatives. Simon & Schuster, 2001. Klososky, Scott, editor. The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1994. Lien, Tracey. “Mark Zuckerberg Says Many Conservatives Don’t Trust Facebook to Show ‘Content Without a Political Bias’.” Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2016. Nunez, Michael. “Former Facebook Workers

Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in LIfe

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz  · 9 May 2022  · 287pp  · 69,655 words

the past few minutes Googling around for how to create a Tony Fadell poster, it is probably someone like Steve Jobs. Or Bill Gates. Or Mark Zuckerberg. One feature these world-famous founders all have in common is the stage of life at which they founded their business empires. They were all

a business. But then there are some people whose life story goes against this commonsense idea. Some extremely young people achieve enormous business success—say, Mark Zuckerberg. Because these people’s life stories go against common sense, they make for great stories—“Who would think that a nineteen-year-old could create

a multibillion-dollar business?” People love telling the surprising stories—or making movies about them. Aaron Sorkin wrote The Social Network about nineteen-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and not The Thermostat about forty-one-year-old Tony Fadell. So many people hear so many of these initially surprising stories. And the stories

The Capitalist Manifesto

by Johan Norberg  · 14 Jun 2023  · 295pp  · 87,204 words

had warned that Amazon was incompetent, bleeding money and would probably go bankrupt within a year (eight years later, Lehman Brothers was bankrupt). In 2001, Mark Zuckerberg had not left Harvard to start Facebook – because he had not even started at Harvard. The social networks that ruled were Sixdegrees, AIM, Friendster and

hateful speech and harassment if they didn’t have the resources to engage in very strict moderation to make sure that nothing ever slips through. Mark Zuckerberg’s openness to abolishing it was greeted by some as a sign that he had become enlightened and realized that Facebook needs to be monitored

The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-To-5

by Taylor Pearson  · 27 Jun 2015  · 168pp  · 50,647 words

The New Kingmakers

by Stephen O'Grady  · 14 Mar 2013  · 56pp  · 16,788 words

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

by Jeff Lawson  · 12 Jan 2021  · 282pp  · 85,658 words

The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (And Who Benefits)

by Maximilian Kasy  · 15 Jan 2025  · 209pp  · 63,332 words

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

by Jia Tolentino  · 5 Aug 2019  · 305pp  · 101,743 words

Average Is Over: Powering America Beyond the Age of the Great Stagnation

by Tyler Cowen  · 11 Sep 2013  · 291pp  · 81,703 words

Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age

by Michael Wolff  · 22 Jun 2015  · 172pp  · 46,104 words

The Trouble With Billionaires

by Linda McQuaig  · 1 May 2013  · 261pp  · 81,802 words

A World of Three Zeros: The New Economics of Zero Poverty, Zero Unemployment, and Zero Carbon Emissions

by Muhammad Yunus  · 25 Sep 2017  · 278pp  · 74,880 words

Collaborative Society

by Dariusz Jemielniak and Aleksandra Przegalinska  · 18 Feb 2020  · 187pp  · 50,083 words

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

by Michael Lewis  · 3 May 2021  · 285pp  · 98,832 words

Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World

by Christopher Steiner  · 29 Aug 2012  · 317pp  · 84,400 words

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

by Eric Klinenberg  · 10 Sep 2018  · 281pp  · 83,505 words

Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are

by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz  · 8 May 2017  · 337pp  · 86,320 words

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

by Jaron Lanier  · 28 May 2018  · 151pp  · 39,757 words

Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy

by Alex Moazed and Nicholas L. Johnson  · 30 May 2016  · 324pp  · 89,875 words

The Four: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Divided and Conquered the World

by Scott Galloway  · 2 Oct 2017  · 305pp  · 79,303 words

The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman  · 14 Oct 2019  · 232pp  · 70,361 words

Automation and the Future of Work

by Aaron Benanav  · 3 Nov 2020  · 175pp  · 45,815 words

Nervous States: Democracy and the Decline of Reason

by William Davies  · 26 Feb 2019  · 349pp  · 98,868 words

Leadership by Algorithm: Who Leads and Who Follows in the AI Era?

by David de Cremer  · 25 May 2020  · 241pp  · 70,307 words

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

by Cal Newport  · 5 Feb 2019  · 279pp  · 71,542 words

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

by Yuval Noah Harari  · 29 Aug 2018  · 389pp  · 119,487 words

Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

by Julian Guthrie  · 15 Nov 2019

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie  · 6 May 2019  · 328pp  · 84,682 words

Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future

by Ben Tarnoff  · 13 Jun 2022  · 234pp  · 67,589 words

Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age

by Vauhini Vara  · 8 Apr 2025  · 301pp  · 105,209 words

The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America's Institutions Against Dissent

by Ben Shapiro  · 26 Jul 2021  · 309pp  · 81,243 words

Money Moments: Simple Steps to Financial Well-Being

by Jason Butler  · 22 Nov 2017  · 139pp  · 33,246 words

Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

by Ali Tamaseb  · 14 Sep 2021  · 251pp  · 80,831 words

The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job

by John Tamny  · 6 May 2018  · 165pp  · 47,193 words

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption

by Ben Mezrich  · 20 May 2019  · 304pp  · 91,566 words

Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations

by Nicholas Carr  · 5 Sep 2016  · 391pp  · 105,382 words

Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Plan to Stay on Top Forever

by Alex Kantrowitz  · 6 Apr 2020  · 260pp  · 67,823 words

World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech

by Franklin Foer  · 31 Aug 2017  · 281pp  · 71,242 words

The Metaverse: And How It Will Revolutionize Everything

by Matthew Ball  · 18 Jul 2022  · 412pp  · 116,685 words

How Democracy Ends

by David Runciman  · 9 May 2018  · 245pp  · 72,893 words

Talk to Me: How Voice Computing Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Think

by James Vlahos  · 1 Mar 2019  · 392pp  · 108,745 words

The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World

by David Sax  · 15 Jan 2022  · 282pp  · 93,783 words

The Wondering Jew: Israel and the Search for Jewish Identity

by Micah Goodman  · 10 Nov 2020  · 234pp  · 67,917 words

For Profit: A History of Corporations

by William Magnuson  · 8 Nov 2022  · 356pp  · 116,083 words

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart

by Nicholas Carr  · 28 Jan 2025  · 231pp  · 85,135 words

Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

by Zoë Schiffer  · 13 Feb 2024  · 343pp  · 92,693 words

Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China's ByteDance

by Matthew Brennan  · 9 Oct 2020  · 282pp  · 63,385 words

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

by Max Chafkin  · 14 Sep 2021  · 524pp  · 130,909 words

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

by Sarah Frier  · 13 Apr 2020  · 484pp  · 114,613 words

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

by Anupreeta Das  · 12 Aug 2024  · 315pp  · 115,894 words

The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

by Sebastian Mallaby  · 1 Feb 2022  · 935pp  · 197,338 words

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein  · 6 Sep 2021

Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning From It

by Brian Dumaine  · 11 May 2020  · 411pp  · 98,128 words

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

by Mike Isaac  · 2 Sep 2019  · 444pp  · 127,259 words

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

by Catie Marron  · 11 Apr 2016  · 195pp  · 58,462 words

How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age

by Andrew Keen  · 1 Mar 2018  · 308pp  · 85,880 words

The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

by James Ball  · 19 Aug 2020  · 268pp  · 76,702 words

Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe

by Roger McNamee  · 1 Jan 2019  · 382pp  · 105,819 words

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You

by Eli Pariser  · 11 May 2011  · 274pp  · 75,846 words

What Would Google Do?

by Jeff Jarvis  · 15 Feb 2009  · 299pp  · 91,839 words

Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin  · 17 Apr 2017  · 222pp  · 70,132 words

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success

by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown  · 24 Apr 2017  · 344pp  · 96,020 words

Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection

by Jacob Silverman  · 17 Mar 2015  · 527pp  · 147,690 words

The Dark Net

by Jamie Bartlett  · 20 Aug 2014  · 267pp  · 82,580 words

How to Build a Billion Dollar App: Discover the Secrets of the Most Successful Entrepreneurs of Our Time

by George Berkowski  · 3 Sep 2014  · 468pp  · 124,573 words

Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

by Emily Chang  · 6 Feb 2018  · 334pp  · 104,382 words

Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts

by Jill Abramson  · 5 Feb 2019  · 788pp  · 223,004 words

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story

by Billy Gallagher  · 13 Feb 2018  · 359pp  · 96,019 words

Experience on Demand: What Virtual Reality Is, How It Works, and What It Can Do

by Jeremy Bailenson  · 30 Jan 2018  · 302pp  · 90,215 words

Creative Intelligence: Harnessing the Power to Create, Connect, and Inspire

by Bruce Nussbaum  · 5 Mar 2013  · 385pp  · 101,761 words

An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang  · 12 Jul 2021  · 372pp  · 100,947 words

The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism

by Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias  · 19 Aug 2019  · 458pp  · 116,832 words

Lurking: How a Person Became a User

by Joanne McNeil  · 25 Feb 2020  · 239pp  · 80,319 words

Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World

by Cade Metz  · 15 Mar 2021  · 414pp  · 109,622 words

The Smartphone Society

by Nicole Aschoff

App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream

by Michael Sayman  · 20 Sep 2021  · 285pp  · 91,144 words

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results

by Andrew McAfee  · 14 Nov 2023  · 381pp  · 113,173 words

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

by Max Fisher  · 5 Sep 2022  · 439pp  · 131,081 words

Don't Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles--And All of US

by Rana Foroohar  · 5 Nov 2019  · 380pp  · 109,724 words

Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World

by Parmy Olson  · 284pp  · 96,087 words

The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power

by Jacob Helberg  · 11 Oct 2021  · 521pp  · 118,183 words

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, From the Ancients to Fake News

by Eric Berkowitz  · 3 May 2021  · 412pp  · 115,048 words

Nothing but Net: 10 Timeless Stock-Picking Lessons From One of Wall Street’s Top Tech Analysts

by Mark Mahaney  · 9 Nov 2021  · 311pp  · 90,172 words

Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral

by Ben Smith  · 2 May 2023

The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

by Tim Wu  · 14 May 2016  · 515pp  · 143,055 words

Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity

by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson  · 15 May 2023  · 619pp  · 177,548 words

The Facebook Effect

by David Kirkpatrick  · 19 Nov 2010  · 455pp  · 133,322 words

The Twittering Machine

by Richard Seymour  · 20 Aug 2019  · 297pp  · 83,651 words

The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt

by Sinan Aral  · 14 Sep 2020  · 475pp  · 134,707 words

I Hate the Internet: A Novel

by Jarett Kobek  · 3 Nov 2016  · 302pp  · 74,350 words

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

by Shoshana Zuboff  · 15 Jan 2019  · 918pp  · 257,605 words

The History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality

by Blake J. Harris  · 19 Feb 2019  · 561pp  · 163,916 words

Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

by Dan Lyons  · 4 Apr 2016  · 284pp  · 92,688 words

Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

by Clive Thompson  · 26 Mar 2019  · 499pp  · 144,278 words

The People vs Tech: How the Internet Is Killing Democracy (And How We Save It)

by Jamie Bartlett  · 4 Apr 2018  · 170pp  · 49,193 words

Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh  · 14 Apr 2018  · 286pp  · 87,401 words

The New Geography of Jobs

by Enrico Moretti  · 21 May 2012  · 403pp  · 87,035 words

The Internet Is Not the Answer

by Andrew Keen  · 5 Jan 2015  · 361pp  · 81,068 words

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov  · 15 Nov 2013  · 606pp  · 157,120 words

The Network Imperative: How to Survive and Grow in the Age of Digital Business Models

by Barry Libert and Megan Beck  · 6 Jun 2016  · 285pp  · 58,517 words

Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business

by Ken Auletta  · 4 Jun 2018  · 379pp  · 109,223 words

Facebook: The Inside Story

by Steven Levy  · 25 Feb 2020  · 706pp  · 202,591 words

Kings of Crypto: One Startup's Quest to Take Cryptocurrency Out of Silicon Valley and Onto Wall Street

by Jeff John Roberts  · 15 Dec 2020  · 226pp  · 65,516 words

Your Computer Is on Fire

by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip  · 9 Mar 2021  · 661pp  · 156,009 words

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

by Matthew Hindman  · 24 Sep 2018

The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

by Jonathan Tepper  · 20 Nov 2018  · 417pp  · 97,577 words

Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond

by Tamara Kneese  · 14 Aug 2023  · 284pp  · 75,744 words

Likewar: The Weaponization of Social Media

by Peter Warren Singer and Emerson T. Brooking  · 15 Mar 2018

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

by Kashmir Hill  · 19 Sep 2023  · 487pp  · 124,008 words

Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 7 Sep 2022  · 205pp  · 61,903 words

Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk, and the $44 Billion Fight for Twitter's Soul

by Kurt Wagner  · 20 Feb 2024  · 332pp  · 127,754 words

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth

by Elizabeth Williamson  · 8 Mar 2022  · 574pp  · 148,233 words

Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter

by Kate Conger and Ryan Mac  · 17 Sep 2024

How to Spend a Trillion Dollars

by Rowan Hooper  · 15 Jan 2020  · 285pp  · 86,858 words

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

by Sarah Jaffe  · 26 Jan 2021  · 490pp  · 153,455 words

Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech

by Sara Wachter-Boettcher  · 9 Oct 2017  · 223pp  · 60,909 words

A Time to Build: From Family and Community to Congress and the Campus, How Recommitting to Our Institutions Can Revive the American Dream

by Yuval Levin  · 21 Jan 2020  · 224pp  · 71,060 words

Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections

by Mollie Hemingway  · 11 Oct 2021  · 595pp  · 143,394 words

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better

by Rob Reich  · 20 Nov 2018  · 257pp  · 75,685 words

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class

by Joel Kotkin  · 11 May 2020  · 393pp  · 91,257 words

Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change

by Ronald Cohen  · 1 Jul 2020  · 276pp  · 59,165 words

Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence—and How You Can, Too

by Gary Vaynerchuk  · 30 Jan 2018

Trees on Mars: Our Obsession With the Future

by Hal Niedzviecki  · 15 Mar 2015  · 343pp  · 102,846 words

Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons  · 22 Oct 2018  · 252pp  · 78,780 words

Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

by Adam Fisher  · 9 Jul 2018  · 611pp  · 188,732 words

I'm Judging You: The Do-Better Manual

by Luvvie Ajayi  · 12 Sep 2016  · 232pp  · 78,701 words

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters  · 15 Sep 2014  · 185pp  · 43,609 words

Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy

by Nathan Schneider  · 10 Sep 2018  · 326pp  · 91,559 words

The New Class Conflict

by Joel Kotkin  · 31 Aug 2014  · 362pp  · 83,464 words

Googled: The End of the World as We Know It

by Ken Auletta  · 1 Jan 2009  · 532pp  · 139,706 words

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

by Zeynep Tufekci  · 14 May 2017  · 444pp  · 130,646 words

Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley

by Corey Pein  · 23 Apr 2018  · 282pp  · 81,873 words

Give People Money

by Annie Lowrey  · 10 Jul 2018  · 242pp  · 73,728 words

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

by Ben Mezrich  · 13 Jul 2009  · 226pp  · 69,893 words

The Great Firewall of China

by James Griffiths;  · 15 Jan 2018  · 453pp  · 114,250 words

The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America

by Margaret O'Mara  · 8 Jul 2019

Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media

by Tarleton Gillespie  · 25 Jun 2018  · 390pp  · 109,519 words

Thinking Machines: The Inside Story of Artificial Intelligence and Our Race to Build the Future

by Luke Dormehl  · 10 Aug 2016  · 252pp  · 74,167 words

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly  · 9 Oct 2017  · 561pp  · 157,589 words

Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

by Vivek Ramaswamy  · 16 Aug 2021  · 344pp  · 104,522 words

Choose Yourself!

by James Altucher  · 14 Sep 2013  · 230pp  · 76,655 words

How to Stand Up to a Dictator

by Maria Ressa  · 19 Oct 2022

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

by David E. Sanger  · 18 Jun 2018  · 394pp  · 117,982 words

12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next

by Jeanette Winterson  · 15 Mar 2021  · 256pp  · 73,068 words

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

by Anu Bradford  · 25 Sep 2023  · 898pp  · 236,779 words

Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero

by Tyler Cowen  · 8 Apr 2019  · 297pp  · 84,009 words

The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life

by Nick Maggiulli  · 22 Jul 2025

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott  · 4 Jul 2022  · 308pp  · 85,850 words

The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

by Daniel Markovits  · 14 Sep 2019  · 976pp  · 235,576 words

The Ones We've Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America

by Charlotte Alter  · 18 Feb 2020  · 504pp  · 129,087 words

The New Class War: Saving Democracy From the Metropolitan Elite

by Michael Lind  · 20 Feb 2020

Exponential: How Accelerating Technology Is Leaving Us Behind and What to Do About It

by Azeem Azhar  · 6 Sep 2021  · 447pp  · 111,991 words

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

by William Thorndike  · 14 Sep 2012  · 330pp  · 59,335 words

Pattern Breakers: Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future

by Mike Maples and Peter Ziebelman  · 8 Jul 2024  · 207pp  · 65,156 words

Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America

by David Callahan  · 9 Aug 2010

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

by Antonio Garcia Martinez  · 27 Jun 2016  · 559pp  · 155,372 words

Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World

by Anand Giridharadas  · 27 Aug 2018  · 296pp  · 98,018 words

Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom

by Rebecca MacKinnon  · 31 Jan 2012  · 390pp  · 96,624 words

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