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Of the four FSGxLogic titles dropping on 10/13, this was the one that jumped out to me most - a Stanford professor, looking at and dismantling the concept that Silicon Valley builds its philosophy on. If I had a physical copy of this, it'd be filled with underlined passages - there's some great breakdowns on how "dropping out" gets pushed as young entrepreneurs "learning enough" when often based on coursework they've only covered the basics, the notion of "disruption" as doing less actual breaking down of walls and more reconstruction of existing practices rather than building something new, and the way failure has turned into self-mythologization. The text itself feels like it's a smidge too far on the "academic" side of things (I would have preferred this to be a little more for the layman), but I love the way it shows how SV buzzwords (and things like Esalen, self-help, and other concepts get us to people like Peter Thiel who think money = genius) aren't all they're cracked up to be.
Of the four FSGxLogic titles dropping on 10/13, this was the one that jumped out to me most - a Stanford professor, looking at and dismantling the concept that Silicon Valley builds its philosophy on. If I had a physical copy of this, it'd be filled with underlined passages - there's some great breakdowns on how "dropping out" gets pushed as young entrepreneurs "learning enough" when often based on coursework they've only covered the basics, the notion of "disruption" as doing less actual breaking down of walls and more reconstruction of existing practices rather than building something new, and the way failure has turned into self-mythologization. The text itself feels like it's a smidge too far on the "academic" side of things (I would have preferred this to be a little more for the layman), but I love the way it shows how SV buzzwords (and things like Esalen, self-help, and other concepts get us to people like Peter Thiel who think money = genius) aren't all they're cracked up to be.