Comment on The ride of a lifetime
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
I was reading the Careless People book about Meta.
One thing that stood out to me was the presentation of the tech early birds or the folk who dodged the dotcom bubble bursting - she specifically used the term “economically insensitive”. People who made their money from big tech’s initial offerings and their own shares going through the roof, being set up for life, and basically working for the love of the game.
It’s wild. If I’d gotten to the point where I’d paid off the mortgage and had enough in the buffet to catch any unexpected bills or travel costs or whatever, then yeah maybe I’d go geese farming or otter rehoming or llama cuddling or something.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Great book. I wish it was being made into a movie, instead of whatever the fuck the 2nd Social Network movie will be about. Jessie Eisenberg was ready to play Mark again with Emma Stone as Sheryl Sandberg, but it never took off.
zikzak025@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I didn’t even know there was a followup movie in the works. I can understand why a sequel could be good given all that’s happened since, but I can’t understand doing so without most of the important people behind the first one. Sorkin’s a good writer, but I don’t think he was 100% responsible for what made the first one a good movie.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
“Now watch as we enshittify our platform while buying out all the competition, manipulate national electoral outcomes with algorithmic profiling, and cover up our own internal studies on harmfulness in order to continue exploiting minors for profit!”
Unstoppable_Flop@lemmy.zip 26 minutes ago
As has been tradition for as long as there’s been an America, and longer