[...] Silicon Valley is more than just a geographical area in northern California. It is also a state of mind - a state of mind that lusts after the easy life, wealth without working for it, wealth that defines your important status in life. [...]
I learned to survive in that hellhole of a family by becoming all things to all people. Life is a game to me. Always look pleasant, look interested, look compassionate, and act as if you always wanted to be helpful. In my business it's important to win people's trust. I always show I care about t…
All of these avenues of anguish were ways they were protecting their long-developed self-images that they were valuable human beings solely because they were high-tech careerists. For hadn't they had the last laugh on all of their former high-school and college classmates who thought they were weir…
With few exceptions, these twenty-somethings had boxed their lives into a tiny corner of experience: they were only high-tech workers who thought that their title was the key to the universe. Most of them had chosen a high-tech career because they felt it was a safe place to exist. In school they h…
The twenty-somethings, not having developed a long-term sense of self that enabled the older men and women to prevail over expected economic tribulations, were vulnerable to psychological onslaughts on their sense of self [...] They had graduated in complicated technological arenas and felt smug ab…
