Memoir Books


Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley

Liar’s Poker meets The Social Network in an irreverent exposé of life inside the tech bubble, from industry provocateur Antonio García Martínez, a…

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Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the elec…

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

The never-more-necessary return of one of our most vital and eloquent voices on technology and culture, from the author of the seminal Close to th…

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The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI

Author: Fei-Fei Li

The moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution. Wire…

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Lurking: How a Person Became a User

A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user In a shockingly short amo…

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Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

“The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its p…

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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality

The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology. Bridging …

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Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

Author: Dan Lyons

For twenty-five years Dan Lyons was a magazine writer at the top of his profession--until one Friday morning when he received a phone call: Poof. …

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That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

In the tradition of Phil Knight's Shoe Dog comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company-all revealed by co-founde…

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Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

As told by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Hit Refresh is the story of corporate change and reinvention as well as the story of Nadella’s personal jo…

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