A review by skigirlpdx
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble by Dan Lyons

2.0

The premise of this book sounded so funny, but (ironically) Lyons struck me as the arrogant entitled voice that he’s trying to mock. He makes a career switch from reporting to marketing, and then critiques the terminology and techniques of marketing as barely above criminal. He doesn’t bother to learn how to succeed in this new role - he just mocks it for being different from journalism. He is upset his coworkers don’t want to trash talk each other. His descriptions of women are also generic and flippant, as though a team of women marketers were essentially clones of the same stereotype. In summary, I was hoping for funny observations, but his cynical stereotypes just felt lazy and annoying.