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While I do not normally write reviews, I cannot help but express my frustration at this book's author, Dan Lyons. Lyons makes some excellent points about the exploitation of Silicon Valley and start-ups in particular, however his outrage seems to steWhile I do not normally write reviews, I cannot help but express my frustration at this book's author, Dan Lyons. Lyons makes some excellent points about the exploitation of Silicon Valley and start-ups in particular, however his outrage seems to stem from the fact that he is no longer in the position to be the oppressor he rails against (which is to say, younger white males as opposed to older ones).
Thank you, Dan, for pointing out what the rest of us already know.
Once you were a high powered journalist whose ass was regularly kissed and who, despite being paid relatively little, got to celebrate his superiority on yachts with powerful and intellectual people. Suddenly stripped of that youthful sheen, and caught in a waning industry, you find yourself exactly where the rest of us live: in an unfair reality perpetuated by self-important and overly confident young male blowhards like your former self.
Why, you wonder, do colleagues not kiss your ass as before? Because you are actively terrible at your job, making fun of it and everyone around you while you make no appearance of effort? Surely not. Because you are openly in it for the payout and almost obscenely condescending? Can’t be.
If you stopped being so self-indulgent for a moment and took an active interest in your job and your colleagues, perhaps you would have the ability to change things from within the company (because, as you point out, there are real changes that need to be made). You are not deserving by virtue of existing, but are rather a human being like the rest of us. Perhaps instead of whining, you could affect some real change because, here’s the secret, Dan, older white males, second to the young ones, have the most influence anyway....more
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