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Live Work Work Work Die audiobook

  • By: Corey Pein
  • Narrator: Corey Pein
  • Category: Future Studies, Social Science
  • Length: 8 hours 38 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: April 24, 2018
  • Language: English
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Live Work Work Work Die Audiobook Summary

A scathing, sardonic exploration of Silicon Valley tech culture, laying bare the greed, hubris, and retrograde politics of an industry that aspires to radically transform society for its own benefit. This enlightening audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested or involved in the tech industry.

At the height of the startup boom, journalist Corey Pein set out for Silicon Valley with little more than a smartphone and his wits. His goal: to learn how such an overhyped industry could possibly sustain itself as long as it has. But to truly understand the delirious reality of the tech entrepreneurs, he knew he would have to inhabit that perspective–he would have to become an entrepreneur himself. Thus Pein begins his journey–skulking through gimmicky tech conferences, pitching his over-the-top business ideas to investors, and rooming with a succession of naive upstart programmers whose entire lives are managed by their employers–who work endlessly and obediently, never thinking to question their place in the system.

In showing us this frantic world, Pein challenges the positive, feel-good self-image that the tech tycoons have crafted–as nerdy and benevolent creators of wealth and opportunity–revealing their self-justifying views and their insidious visions for the future.

Vivid and incisive, Live Work Work Work Die is a troubling portrait of a self-obsessed industry bent on imposing its disturbing visions on the rest of us.

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Live Work Work Work Die Audiobook Narrator

Corey Pein is the narrator of Live Work Work Work Die audiobook that was written by Corey Pein

Corey Pein is a regular contributor to The Baffler, where he writes a column and hosts the podcast “News from Nowhere.” A longtime investigative reporter and former staff writer for the Willamette Week, he has also written for Slate, Salon, Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, and the Columbia Journalism Review, among other publications. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Corey is the author of Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley.

About the Author(s) of Live Work Work Work Die

Corey Pein is the author of Live Work Work Work Die

Live Work Work Work Die Full Details

Narrator Corey Pein
Length 8 hours 38 minutes
Author Corey Pein
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date April 24, 2018
ISBN 9781427294258

Subjects

The publisher of the Live Work Work Work Die is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Future Studies, Social Science

Additional info

The publisher of the Live Work Work Work Die is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427294258.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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