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whoischels 's review for:
Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
by Kara Swisher
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
Checked this out because I listened to Kara Swisher on the Ezra Klein podcast. I was like "wow, this lady's a real hater! I gotta go read her book." I was disappointed that there wasn't as much hatred in this book as in her interviews she's been doing about it. Swisher's hatred of the big tech CEOs seems to be rooted in a feeling disappointment that they're leaning into fascism the way they are given that she has drank the Kool Aid on them being "geniuses." It's interesting to see a democrat turn on these guys after about two decades of doing journalism that helped their cause. I don't necessarily agree with her opinion about them, which again, seems to be the idea that these dudes are actually geniuses who've been tainted somehow by fascism. It's not surprising to me that a bunch of tech CEOs fully bought into capitalism would stick with it and rebrand when capitalism is going the direction its going. Swisher seems to have "surprised pikachu face" about that.