The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (598 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1451668260 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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The result is a reluctantly Machiavellian guidebook to Silicon Valley and a strong endorsement for maintaining a separate social life rather than a fully public pics or it didn t happen one." --"The Daily"""The Boy Kings" needs a place on your summer reading list. The result is a reluctantly Machiavellian guidebook to Silicon Valley -- and a strong endorsement for maintaining a separate social life rather than a fully public "pics or it didn't happen" one." --"The Daily"In her dark, hypnotic memoir of working at Facebook during its rising years, Katherine Losse
Facebook and Philosophy Helene Ossipov This is a thoughtful book about technology, our fetishization of it, and what that can mean in the long run. Clearly written by a person well-grounded in the humanities, this book explores the explosive growth of Facebook with its need for data and more data. The engineers are given free rein to co. "every privileged engineer should read The Boy Kings" according to Amazon Customer. If you think the tech sector is a utopian meritocracy, you're way off. Kate Losse shares her experience as an early Facebook employee outside the sacred grove of the engineering department, where customer service and project management people, mostly women, are treated with a level of respect norma. CasualHomeShopper said A nice look into facebook. tl;dr Fascinated by Facebook? Read. Could care less? Don't.I'm a resident of the bay area, so it was with voyeuristic intentions that I purchased and read this book. It was a nice look into the psychology of the boys (and yes, they're boys) who currently and have historically run Facebook.I wish sh
Kate Losse was a grad school refugee when she joined Facebook as employee #51 in 2005. From the laptop, I could write and distribute information faster than ever before. What could you do, now that you could see and connect to everyone and everything, instantly? "But what, also, could be diminished by such quick access? In the realm of ideas, it seemed easy: Who wouldn't want to distribute and discuss ideas widely? However, in the realm of the personal, it seemed more complicated. Over time, this sense of mission became so intense that working for Facebook felt like more than just a job; it implied a wholehearted dedication to "the cause." Employees were incentivized to live within one mile of the office, summers were spent carousing at the company pool house, and female employees were told to wear T-shirts with founder Mark Zuckerberg's profile picture on his birthday. By revealing here what's really driving both the business and the culture of the social network, Losse answers the biggest question of all: What kind of world is Facebook trying to build, and is it the world we want to live in? *** "Logging on to Facebook that first day, in retrospect, was the second, and to date the last, time that any technology has captured my imagination. The first was when Apple advertised the first laptop, the PowerBook, in the 1990s--with the words, 'What's on your PowerBook?' "'Wo
. She lives in Marfa, Texas. Katherine Losse was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and holds a master’s degree in English from Johns Hopkins University