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bigcitydreamer 's review for:
Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley
by David Jeans, Angel Au-Yeung
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5 stars for a well-researched but distressing book. I will have to separate the review into segments on craftsmanship vs. content:
Craftsmanship: The writers clearly did a thorough job researching all aspects of Tony Hsieh's life and approached their subject with a respectful but objective lens. It would have been easy to cast judgments on particular characters (I personally have no respect for Mimi Pham or Elizabeth Pezzello and Brett Gorman, among others) but the authors kept their cool and approached descriptions with adequate nuance. I learned a lot from this book and appreciated the questions it sparked internally on the cost of high pressure success in Silicon Valley and for Asian-American families in particular. Really well done!
Content: The FT put this book on its reads of the summer but described the last few chapters as "very hard to read," which I agree with. Necessary to understand the sycophantic leeches contributing to Tony's tragic demise, but so heart-wrenching to see laid out. As stated above, I hope those who took advantage of a sick man to personally enrich themselves see their karmic justice.
Craftsmanship: The writers clearly did a thorough job researching all aspects of Tony Hsieh's life and approached their subject with a respectful but objective lens. It would have been easy to cast judgments on particular characters (I personally have no respect for Mimi Pham or Elizabeth Pezzello and Brett Gorman, among others) but the authors kept their cool and approached descriptions with adequate nuance. I learned a lot from this book and appreciated the questions it sparked internally on the cost of high pressure success in Silicon Valley and for Asian-American families in particular. Really well done!
Content: The FT put this book on its reads of the summer but described the last few chapters as "very hard to read," which I agree with. Necessary to understand the sycophantic leeches contributing to Tony's tragic demise, but so heart-wrenching to see laid out. As stated above, I hope those who took advantage of a sick man to personally enrich themselves see their karmic justice.