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Wendy Liu: Abolish Silicon Valley: How to Liberate Technology from Capitalism (2020, Repeater Books)

Former insider turned critic Wendy Liu busts the myths of the tech industry, and offers …

I've read this at some point in 2020. Yes, it's more memoir than manifesto, and some readers may feel the urge to skip to the last few chapters. But I still feel many would benefit of following her reasoning in trying to make sense of many of the ways in which wealth and success in Silicon Valley are not related to intelligence, talent, or merit.

She has a great introductory video on the book website - abolishsiliconvalley.com/ - and I am a big fan of her essays (e.g. the one for Logic magazine) and even many of her musings in earlier blog posts.

At this time (the public Musk/Twitter meltdown), I miss her writing and thinking even more.