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).

Activity

You added a note
7 years, 6 months ago

hereditary redundancy

What was one more child in the mix? I'd have the heir and the spare. A little redundancy, whether in technology or heredity, never hurt.

—p.171 Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio Garcia Martinez
You added a note
7 years, 6 months ago

the point of MBAs archive/silicon-jest

At Harvard it's "Baker Scholar", at Stanford it's "Arjay Miller Scholar"; this is the added frosting on the MBA cake if you graduate within the top 10 percent gradeswise. It's the people who took their MBA classes seriously and thought that the content actually meant something rather than assuming …

—p.110 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
You added a note
7 years, 6 months ago

Silicon Valley capitalism

Meritocracy is the propaganda we use to bless the charade.

[...]

Capitalism is an amoral farce in which every player--investor, employee, entrepreneur, consumer--is complicit.

But hey, look at these shiny iPhones. Right?

—p.74 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
You added a note
7 years, 6 months ago

less Neal Stephenson

Engineers can be so smart about code, and yet so dense about human motivations. They'd be better served by reading less Neal Stephenson and more Shakespeare and Patricia Highsmith.

—p.73 by Antonio Garcia Martinez
You added a note
7 years, 6 months ago

ten thousand daily steps archive/silicon-jest

[...] In one year in Facebook Ads, I had seen the famously micromanage-y founder and CEO in the Ads area precisely once: when he was walking around the building in a circle to get in his ten thousand daily steps. [...]

—p.4 by Antonio Garcia Martinez