Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley [First edition] 9780062458193, 9780062458216, 0062458191

Prologue: The garden of forking paths -- Part 1: Disturbing the peace. The undertakers of capitalism -- The human attent

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Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley [First edition]
 9780062458193, 9780062458216, 0062458191

Table of contents :
Prologue: The garden of forking paths --
Part 1: Disturbing the peace. The undertakers of capitalism --
The human attention exchange --
Knowing how to swim --
Abandoning the shipwreck --
Part 2: Pseudorandomness. Let me see your war face --
Like marriage, but without the fucking --
Speed is a feature --
D-Day --
A conclave of angels --
The hill of sand --
Turning and turning in the widening gyre --
¡No pasarán! --
The dog shit sandwich --
Victory --
Launching! --
Dates @Twitter --
Acquisition chicken --
Getting liked --
Getting poked --
The various futures of the forking paths --
Retweets are not endorsements --
The dotted line --
Endgame --
Part 3: Move fast and break things. Boot camp --
Product masseur --
Google delenda est --
Leaping headlong --
One shot, one kill --
Twice bitten, thrice shy --
Ads five-oh --
The narcissism of privacy --
Are we savages or what? --
O Death --
The barbaric yawn --
Going public --
When the flying saucers fail to appear --
Monetizing the tumor --
The great awakening --
Barbarians at the gates --
IPA>
IPO --
Initial public offering: a reevaluation --
Flash boys --
Full frontal Facebook --
Microsoft shrugged --
Ad majorem Facebook gloriam --
Adiós, Facebook --
Pandemonium lost --
Epilogue: Man plans and God laughs.

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