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Nomad Capitalist: How to Reclaim Your Freedom With Offshore Bank Accounts, Dual Citizenship, Foreign Companies, and Overseas Investments

by Andrew Henderson  · 8 Apr 2018  · 403pp  · 110,492 words

the life you want come to you? Why go all-in at dramatically higher risk when you can enjoy the same lifestyle benefits without the Silicon Valley mindset? In that way, the Nomad Capitalist lifestyle is the anti-Silicon Valley. I take minimal risks, yet enjoy many of the perks. I hire affordable

Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire

by Hans Gremeil and William Sposato  · 15 Dec 2021  · 404pp  · 126,447 words

and manufacturing cars. Traditional automakers roll out redesigned vehicles at a leisurely pace of every four to seven years. The newcomers, by contrast, brought a Silicon Valley mindset for much faster product cycles. New smartphones, after all, are released almost every year. Some auto entrants could go from blank slate to prototype in

Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

by Paul Kingsnorth  · 23 Sep 2025  · 388pp  · 110,920 words

next. I expect Amazon’s Digital Assistant will be able to work it out when the time comes. Anyone who has paid attention to the Silicon Valley Mindset over the last decade or two will recognise this kind of progress-obsessed, tech-fuelled optimism. We know these people by now. They are the

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

attention drifted, because increasingly rebellious investors pressured Twitter to boost growth instead, or because the solutions proved unpalatable to a company still locked in the Silicon Valley mindset. Accounts from Twitter employees suggest it was likely a combination of all three. At YouTube, meanwhile, it was otherwise business as usual. The platform’s

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

by Parmy Olson  · 284pp  · 96,087 words

special, that meant they could be replicated by computers, even improved on. Maybe he could do that. In many ways, Altman was building off a Silicon Valley mindset that saw life itself as an engineering conundrum. You could solve all manner of big problems by using the same steps you took to optimize

To Pixar and Beyond

by Lawrence Levy

I looked at each other. Was he serious? Who in their right mind takes on a hundred-year project? Four years or bust was my Silicon Valley mindset. “How do we do it?” I asked Rinpoche. “Except for you, none of us has any qualifications.” “Think of me like a miner who has

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

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

is now held by Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors. Curry not only works for Silicon Valley capitalists but has come to represent the Silicon Valley mindset, the way Tiger Woods once did. See Erik Malinowski, Betaball: How Silicon Valley and Science Built One of the Greatest Basketball Teams in History (Atria