Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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7 years, 6 months ago

Ev after Google

But after Google, Ev wasn't anywhere to be found at Odeo, either. He soon semiretired at thirty-two years old. His bank account had gone from a three-figure balance--often barely enough to cover his rent--to double-digit millions of dollars. For Ev, it was time to enjoy the good life, not get invol…

—p.24 Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal FOUNDERS (7) by Nick Bilton
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7 years, 6 months ago

Rabble

[...] Rabble explained that he was only in San Francisco for a short time with his fiancée, Gabba, so they could save money to continue traveling and going to political demonstrations and protests around the world. This, Rabble explained, was their "full-time" job. But they were not your traditiona…

—p.22 FOUNDERS (7) by Nick Bilton
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7 years, 6 months ago

on child support

I contributed a slab of cash every month, per California support guidelines, but it would be my Facebook stock vesting yet to come that would pay for private high schools and Stanford, so Zoe and Noah wouldn't have to sneak into this country's elite through the back door from cattle class, as I had…

—p.437 Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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his problem with capitalism

Similarly, capitalism is the worst form of managing the means of production, except for yet worse ways. We should treat it as such rather than turning it into the Blue State secular religion, alongside yoga and John Oliver.

What's my big beef with capitalism? That it desacralizes everything, rob…

—p.411 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
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capitalism vs communism

In Havana, my cousins were forced to listen to rambling speeches about maintaining core values inside a one-dimensional cult of personality. In Menlo Park, I was sitting in a tent full of people wearing identical uniforms of Facebook swag and doing the same.

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Meanwhile, I was walking aro…

—p.354 by Antonio Garcia Martinez