move fast and break things
description: internal motto used by Facebook until 2014, as coined by Mark Zuckerberg
130 results
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
by Jacob Silverman · 9 Oct 2025 · 312pp · 103,645 words
lights understandably chose the former. And in the end it would make all the difference. In the 2024 election, tech’s bias for action—for moving fast and breaking things—met Donald Trump’s complete disregard for what we euphemistically call “norms.” Together they changed the political process with shocking velocity, merging corporate and
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he did, that Trump’s election was crucial for the survival of Western civilization. As a political operator, Musk deployed the tech modus operandi of move-fast-and-break-things—including, perhaps, campaign finance law—a growth-hacking mentality in which cutting corners was fine as long as it quickly scaled the product. For
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile
by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon and Aaron Naparstek · 21 Oct 2025 · 330pp · 85,349 words
and not just a thing that made people late to work. Motordom Strikes Back Long before Silicon Valley popularized the idea, cars were the original “move fast and break things.” Quite literally, they moved faster and more unpredictably than anything that had been on streets before, and, the early history shows, they broke a
The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology, and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth
by Nicolas Niarchos · 20 Jan 2026 · 654pp · 170,150 words
to dominate the field and produce as many batteries as possible. Sony, which under Akio Morita especially drew more on American corporate culture in the move-fast-and-break-things mold, rapidly began to engineer its battery. Asahi Kasei dithered, much to the frustration of the teams that had been working on lithium-ion
The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic Will Change Capitalism
by Grace Blakeley · 14 Oct 2020 · 82pp · 24,150 words
. 12 Rana Foroohar, Don’t Be Evil: The Case Against Big Tech, New York: Currency/Random House, 2019. 13 See, e.g., Jonathan Taplin, Move Fast and Break Things: How Google, Facebook and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy, New York: Little, Brown, 2017, in which the author makes the now well-known claim
The Wisdom of Frugality: Why Less Is More - More or Less
by Emrys Westacott · 14 Apr 2016 · 287pp · 80,050 words
the ideal of a slower, more stable—they might say “static”—world rather boring. This is the mind-set behind Facebook’s cheerful mantra, “Move fast and break things.” But for many the rate of change creates all sorts of problems and anxieties. Traditional ways have to be abandoned; cherished communities disintegrate; once-valued
The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
by Tim Wu · 14 Jun 2018 · 128pp · 38,847 words
disadvantage. Being big meant being hierarchical, industrial, dinosaurlike in an age of fleet-footed mammals. Better maybe to stay small and stay young, to move fast and break things. All this suggested that in cyberspace, there could be no such thing as a lasting monopoly. The internet would never stand for it. Business was
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier · 28 May 2018 · 151pp · 39,757 words
monitor what’s going on, and hiring data scientists to come up with algorithms to avoid the worst failings. Facebook’s old mantra was “Move fast and break things,”3 and now they’re coming up with better mantras and picking up a few pieces from a shattered world and gluing them together. This
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
by Franklin Foer · 31 Aug 2017 · 281pp · 71,242 words
the language of radical individualism and deployed it in the service of conformism. Zuckerberg claimed to have distilled that hacker spirit into a motivational motto: “Move Fast and Break Things.” Indeed, Facebook has excelled at that. The truth is, Facebook moved faster than Zuckerberg could ever have imagined. He hadn’t really intended his
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of computer scientists who were trying to quickly prototype”: “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stumbles: ‘There’s always a next move,’” Today, February 4, 2014. “Move Fast and Break Things”: “Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter to Investors: ‘The Hacker Way,’” Wired, February 1, 2012. “It was always very important for our brand”: David Kirkpatrick, The
IRL: Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives
by Chris Stedman · 19 Oct 2020 · 307pp · 101,998 words
instead of “safe” in withdrawal, life comes to have more meaning. Rather than stepping back or following Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s edict to “move fast and break things,” we should care about the things and people in our lives and treat them with care. Understand them not as expendable and replaceable but rather
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy
by Talia Lavin · 14 Jul 2020 · 231pp · 71,299 words
decisions as whether Holocaust denial and antiblack hate speech have a role in public discourse. Silicon Valley has long operated on a libertarian, reckless, “move fast and break things” ethos that is far more conservative about reining in hate speech than allowing it to reverberate in the public consciousness unchecked. Consider the sheer dollars
Becoming Data Literate: Building a great business, culture and leadership through data and analytics
by David Reed · 31 Aug 2021 · 168pp · 49,067 words
Tory Nation: The Dark Legacy of the World's Most Successful Political Party
by Samuel Earle · 3 May 2023 · 245pp · 88,158 words
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
by Kristen R. Ghodsee · 16 May 2023 · 302pp · 112,390 words
Big Data at Work: Dispelling the Myths, Uncovering the Opportunities
by Thomas H. Davenport · 4 Feb 2014
Philosophy of Software Design
by John Ousterhout · 28 Jan 2018 · 211pp · 58,677 words
Lurking: How a Person Became a User
by Joanne McNeil · 25 Feb 2020 · 239pp · 80,319 words
Death Glitch: How Techno-Solutionism Fails Us in This Life and Beyond
by Tamara Kneese · 14 Aug 2023 · 284pp · 75,744 words
The Twittering Machine
by Richard Seymour · 20 Aug 2019 · 297pp · 83,651 words
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
by Angie Schmitt · 26 Aug 2020 · 274pp · 63,679 words
The End of Nice: How to Be Human in a World Run by Robots (Kindle Single)
by Richard Newton · 11 Apr 2015 · 94pp · 26,453 words
What's Yours Is Mine: Against the Sharing Economy
by Tom Slee · 18 Nov 2015 · 265pp · 69,310 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
Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps
by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood Ph. D. · 23 Dec 2018 · 960pp · 125,049 words
The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen · 5 Jan 2015 · 361pp · 81,068 words
The Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success
by Ross Douthat · 25 Feb 2020 · 324pp · 80,217 words
Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America
by Garrett Neiman · 19 Jun 2023 · 386pp · 112,064 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
Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World
by Anupreeta Das · 12 Aug 2024 · 315pp · 115,894 words
How to Fix the Future: Staying Human in the Digital Age
by Andrew Keen · 1 Mar 2018 · 308pp · 85,880 words
Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech
by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
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
The Revolution That Wasn't: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors
by Spencer Jakab · 1 Feb 2022 · 420pp · 94,064 words
Exit Strategy
by Sherry Walling, Rob Walling · 22 Nov 2024 · 215pp · 60,241 words
Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology From Capitalism
by Wendy Liu · 22 Mar 2020 · 223pp · 71,414 words
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia · 20 Mar 2024 · 336pp · 91,806 words
Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
by Joanna Walsh · 22 Sep 2025 · 255pp · 80,203 words
Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech
by Sara Wachter-Boettcher · 9 Oct 2017 · 223pp · 60,909 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab and Peter Vanham · 27 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 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
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
Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought A. I. To Google, Facebook, and the World
by Cade Metz · 15 Mar 2021 · 414pp · 109,622 words
12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next
by Jeanette Winterson · 15 Mar 2021 · 256pp · 73,068 words
The Smartphone Society
by Nicole Aschoff
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by Yuval Noah Harari · 9 Sep 2024 · 566pp · 169,013 words
The Startup Way: Making Entrepreneurship a Fundamental Discipline of Every Enterprise
by Eric Ries · 15 Mar 2017 · 406pp · 105,602 words
Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
by Alex Rosenblat · 22 Oct 2018 · 343pp · 91,080 words
Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business
by Ken Auletta · 4 Jun 2018 · 379pp · 109,223 words
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
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
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar Scandal
by Duncan Mavin · 20 Jul 2022 · 345pp · 100,989 words
Reset
by Ronald J. Deibert · 14 Aug 2020
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words
App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream
by Michael Sayman · 20 Sep 2021 · 285pp · 91,144 words
Boom: Bubbles and the End of Stagnation
by Byrne Hobart and Tobias Huber · 29 Oct 2024 · 292pp · 106,826 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
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe
by Roger McNamee · 1 Jan 2019 · 382pp · 105,819 words
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz · 4 Mar 2014 · 270pp · 79,068 words
Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us
by Dan Lyons · 22 Oct 2018 · 252pp · 78,780 words
WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us
by Tim O'Reilly · 9 Oct 2017 · 561pp · 157,589 words
The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything
by Gottfried Leibbrandt and Natasha de Teran · 14 Jul 2021 · 326pp · 91,532 words
The Fifth Domain: Defending Our Country, Our Companies, and Ourselves in the Age of Cyber Threats
by Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake · 15 Jul 2019 · 409pp · 112,055 words
Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy That Works for Progress, People and Planet
by Klaus Schwab · 7 Jan 2021 · 460pp · 107,454 words
User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work & Play
by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant · 7 Nov 2019
The Mutant Project: Inside the Global Race to Genetically Modify Humans
by Eben Kirksey · 10 Nov 2020 · 599pp · 98,564 words
The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future
by Keach Hagey · 19 May 2025 · 439pp · 125,379 words
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend Them Back
by Bruce Schneier · 7 Feb 2023 · 306pp · 82,909 words
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
by Parmy Olson · 284pp · 96,087 words
How the Railways Will Fix the Future: Rediscovering the Essential Brilliance of the Iron Road
by Gareth Dennis · 12 Nov 2024 · 261pp · 76,645 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
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
by Meredith Broussard · 19 Apr 2018 · 245pp · 83,272 words
Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy
by George Gilder · 16 Jul 2018 · 332pp · 93,672 words
The System: Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
by James Ball · 19 Aug 2020 · 268pp · 76,702 words
The Job: The Future of Work in the Modern Era
by Ellen Ruppel Shell · 22 Oct 2018 · 402pp · 126,835 words
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
by Amy Webb · 5 Mar 2019 · 340pp · 97,723 words
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
by Jacob Silverman · 17 Mar 2015 · 527pp · 147,690 words
Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-Connected World
by Bruce Schneier · 3 Sep 2018 · 448pp · 117,325 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
Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath · 3 Mar 2020
Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World
by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler · 3 Feb 2015 · 368pp · 96,825 words
How I Built This: The Unexpected Paths to Success From the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
by Guy Raz · 14 Sep 2020 · 361pp · 107,461 words
Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
by Christopher Wylie · 8 Oct 2019
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
by Angel Au-Yeung and David Jeans · 25 Apr 2023 · 427pp · 134,098 words
How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, From Home Renovations to Space Exploration
by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner · 16 Feb 2023 · 353pp · 97,029 words
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
by Anne Helen Petersen · 14 Jan 2021 · 297pp · 88,890 words
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin · 14 Sep 2021 · 524pp · 130,909 words
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets That Launched a Second Space Age
by Eric Berger · 23 Sep 2024 · 375pp · 113,230 words
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
by Sarah Frier · 13 Apr 2020 · 484pp · 114,613 words
Late Bloomers: The Power of Patience in a World Obsessed With Early Achievement
by Rich Karlgaard · 15 Apr 2019 · 321pp · 92,828 words
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 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
Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
by Ozan Varol · 13 Apr 2020 · 389pp · 112,319 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
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
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
by Antonio Garcia Martinez · 27 Jun 2016 · 559pp · 155,372 words
How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa · 19 Oct 2022
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
by John Markoff · 22 Mar 2022 · 573pp · 142,376 words
Four Battlegrounds
by Paul Scharre · 18 Jan 2023
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
by Jacob Helberg · 11 Oct 2021 · 521pp · 118,183 words
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything
by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words
Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths From the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
by Reid Hoffman, June Cohen and Deron Triff · 14 Oct 2021 · 309pp · 96,168 words
Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington · 6 Apr 2020 · 384pp · 93,754 words
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
by Mike Isaac · 2 Sep 2019 · 444pp · 127,259 words
Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World
by Timothy Ferriss · 14 Jun 2017 · 579pp · 183,063 words
The Lonely Century: How Isolation Imperils Our Future
by Noreena Hertz · 13 May 2020 · 506pp · 133,134 words
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson · 26 Mar 2019 · 499pp · 144,278 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
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
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
by Marc Goodman · 24 Feb 2015 · 677pp · 206,548 words
The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America
by Margaret O'Mara · 8 Jul 2019
Your Computer Is on Fire
by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip · 9 Mar 2021 · 661pp · 156,009 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
Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future
by Alan Weisman · 21 Apr 2025 · 599pp · 149,014 words
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
by Karen Hao · 19 May 2025 · 660pp · 179,531 words
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee · 14 Nov 2023 · 381pp · 113,173 words
The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
by Scott Belsky · 1 Oct 2018 · 425pp · 112,220 words
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
by Brian Merchant · 25 Sep 2023 · 524pp · 154,652 words
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination
by Mark Bergen · 5 Sep 2022 · 642pp · 141,888 words
For Profit: A History of Corporations
by William Magnuson · 8 Nov 2022 · 356pp · 116,083 words
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
by Edward Fishman · 25 Feb 2025 · 884pp · 221,861 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
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by Sarah Wynn-Williams · 11 Mar 2025 · 370pp · 115,318 words
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
by Nicole Perlroth · 9 Feb 2021 · 651pp · 186,130 words
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
by Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh · 14 Apr 2018 · 286pp · 87,401 words
Facebook: The Inside Story
by Steven Levy · 25 Feb 2020 · 706pp · 202,591 words
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
by Eric Berger · 2 Mar 2021 · 304pp · 89,879 words
The Nature of Software Development: Keep It Simple, Make It Valuable, Build It Piece by Piece
by Ron Jeffries · 14 Aug 2015 · 444pp · 118,393 words
Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts
by Jill Abramson · 5 Feb 2019 · 788pp · 223,004 words
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words