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Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World
by Clive Thompson
July 16, 2025 - July 18, 2025 (silicon-valley-etc)

Thompson, C. (2019). Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Penguin Press.


Penguin Press, 2019. 448 pages. Hardcover. 9780735220560

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a lifestyle business
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Indeed, among the reigning kingpins of Silicon Va…
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you’re now just tweaking a model
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Some old-school programmers are unsettled by the …
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perfect validation of merit
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Propelled by these epic feats—clever software, en…
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remove friction everywhere
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Soylent is, in many ways, a perfect metonym of th…
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inefficient code is an offense to the soul
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The programmer Bryan Cantrill notes that coders v…

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1. The Software Update That Changed Reality

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2. The Four Waves of Coders

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The Four Waves of Coders

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3. Constant Frustration and Bursts of Joy

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Constant Frustration and Bursts of Joy

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4. Among the INTJs

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Among the INTJs

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5. The Cult of Efficiency

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The Cult of Efficiency

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6. 10X, Rock Stars, and the Myth of Meritocracy

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10X, Rock Stars, and the Myth of Meritocracy

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7. The ENIAC Girls Vanish

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8. Hackers, Crackers, and Freedom Fighters

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Hackers, Crackers, and Freedom Fighters

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9. Cucumbers, Skynet, and Rise of AI

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10. Scale, Trolls, and Big Tech

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11. Blue-collar Coding

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