{"id":15743,"date":"2024-08-31T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/can-you-judge-the-tech-bros-by-their-bookshelves-john-naughton\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T15:37:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:37:37","slug":"can-you-judge-the-tech-bros-by-their-bookshelves-john-naughton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/31\/can-you-judge-the-tech-bros-by-their-bookshelves-john-naughton\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you judge the tech bros by their bookshelves? | John Naughton"},"content":{"rendered":"

A list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset<\/p>\n

In August, a thoughtful blogger, Tanner Greer<\/a>, posed an interesting question to the Silicon Valley crowd: \u201cWhat are the contents of the \u2018vague tech canon\u2019? If we say it is 40 books, what are they?\u201d He was using the term \u201ccanon\u201d in the sense of \u201cthe collection of works considered representative of a period or genre\u201d, but astutely qualifying it to stop Harold Bloom \u2013 the great literary critic who spent his life campaigning for a canon consisting of the great works of the past (Shakespeare, Proust, Dante, Montaigne et al) \u2013 spinning in his grave.<\/p>\n

Greer\u2019s challenge was immediately taken up by Patrick Collison, co-founder with his brother, John, of the fintech giant Stripe (market value $65bn) and thus among the richest Irishmen in history. Unusually among tech titans, Collison is a passionate advocate of reading<\/a>, and so it was perhaps predictable that he would produce a list of 43 books<\/a> \u2013 adding a caveat that it wasn\u2019t \u201cthe list of books that I think one ought<\/em> to read \u2013 it\u2019s just the list that I think roughly covers the major ideas that are influential here\u201d. (\u201cHere\u201d being Silicon Valley.)<\/p>\n

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\nA list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset
\nIn August, a thoughtful blogger, Tanner Greer, posed an interesting question to the Silicon Valley crowd: \u201cWhat are the contents of the \u2018vague tech canon\u2019? If we say it is 40 books, what are they?\u201d He was using the term \u201ccanon\u201d in the sense of \u201cthe collection of works considered representative of a period or genre\u201d, but astutely qualifying it to stop Harold Bloom \u2013 the great literary critic who spent his life campaigning for a canon consisting of the great works of the past (Shakespeare, Proust, Dante, Montaigne et al) \u2013 spinning in his grave.
\nGreer\u2019s challenge was immediately taken up by Patrick Collison, co-founder with his brother, John, of the fintech giant Stripe (market value $65bn) and thus among the richest Irishmen in history. Unusually among tech titans, Collison is a passionate advocate of reading, and so it was perhaps predictable that he would produce a list of 43 books \u2013 adding a caveat that it wasn\u2019t \u201cthe list of books that I think one ought to read \u2013 it\u2019s just the list that I think roughly covers the major ideas that are influential here\u201d. (\u201cHere\u201d being Silicon Valley.) Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A list of book choices by the Silicon Valley titans offers little more than a blank page with respect to real insights into their mindset In August, a thoughtful blogger, Tanner Greer, posed an interesting question to the Silicon Valley crowd: \u201cWhat are the contents of the \u2018vague tech canon\u2019? If we say it is …<\/p>\n

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