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It's worse than that, only the purest of the pure can be employed. Look at Apple's recent mob firing of Antonio García Martínez. Who made the mistake of writing

It's worse than that, only the purest of the pure can be employed. Look at Apple's recent mob firing of Antonio García Martínez. Who made the mistake of writing a best selling and critically acclaimed book just 5 years ago. Featured as one of NPR's best books of the year, recommended by NYT, Washington Post, etc. But now it's suddenly a fireable offense. “An irresistible and indispensable 360-degree guide to the new technology establishment.... A must-read.” New York Times “Incisive.... The most fun business book I have read this year.... Clearly there will be people who hate this book — which is probably one of the things that makes it such a great read.” New York Times “Reckless and rollicking... perceptive and funny and brave.... The resulting view of the Valley’s craziness, self-importance and greed isn’t pretty. But it’s one that most of us have never seen before and aren’t likely to forget.” Washington Post

eigen 5y ago
Can you provide a source for best selling? I dont see it on the NYT Fiction or NonFiction list in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Bes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Nonfiction_Best_Sellers_of_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Nonfiction_...
- throwkeep 5y ago
  According to the publisher it was an NYT bestseller: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/chaos-monkeys-antonio-garcia-martinez?variant=32207601565730 https://www.harpercollins.com/products/chaos-monkeys-antonio...
thereare5lights 5y ago
I have little doubt plenty of women didn’t want to work with someone that writes the things he writes about women.
thelopa 5y ago
“Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they’d become precisely the sort of useless baggage you’d trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.” “PMMess, as we’ll call her, was composed of alternating Bézier curves from top to bottom: convex, then concave, and then convex again, in a vertical undulation you couldn’t take your eyes off of. Unlike most women at Facebook (or in the Bay Area, really) she knew how to dress; forties-style, form-fitting dresses from neck to knee were her mainstay.” “Out of nowhere British Trader informs me she is once again pregnant; the calendar math takes us right back to my move- out imbroglio in December, our last tryst after a breakup desert of nonintimacy. After a brief debate, British Trader confirms her desire to keep the child, whatever my thoughts on the matter. It occurred to me that perhaps this most recent experiment in fertility—and the first—had been planned on British Trader’s part, her back up against the menopause wall, a professional woman with every means at her disposal except a willing male partner—in which case I had been snookered into fatherhood via warm smiles and pliant thighs, the oldest tricks in the book.” “To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round is having to convince five women to do a sixsome with you. The latter is exponentially harder than the former.* * The women analogy breaks down in that, unlike with women, the more investors you seduce into your moresome, the more likely others are to join. This is an expression of the lemming-like nature of tech investors, most of whom scarcely merit the title.” —Antonio Garcia Martinez
- throwkeep 5y ago
  Out of context excerpts from a 500 page book written in the style of Hunter S. Thompson is not compelling evidence to anyone but the mob and those seeking to be offended. People who have actually read the book don't find them to be so problematic, including the reviewers at New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, Techcrunch and others who gave the book a big thumbs up.
  - thelopa 5y ago
    Please try to contextualize those quotes. The context I’ve seen has actually only made them seem worse.

eigen 5y ago

Can you provide a source for best selling? I dont see it on the NYT Fiction or NonFiction list in 2016. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Best_Sellers_of_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Fiction_Bes... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Nonfiction_Best_Sellers_of_2016 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Nonfiction_...

throwkeep 5y ago
According to the publisher it was an NYT bestseller: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/chaos-monkeys-antonio-garcia-martinez?variant=32207601565730 https://www.harpercollins.com/products/chaos-monkeys-antonio...

thereare5lights 5y ago

I have little doubt plenty of women didn’t want to work with someone that writes the things he writes about women.

thelopa 5y ago

“Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they’d become precisely the sort of useless baggage you’d trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.” “PMMess, as we’ll call her, was composed of alternating Bézier curves from top to bottom: convex, then concave, and then convex again, in a vertical undulation you couldn’t take your eyes off of. Unlike most women at Facebook (or in the Bay Area, really) she knew how to dress; forties-style, form-fitting dresses from neck to knee were her mainstay.” “Out of nowhere British Trader informs me she is once again pregnant; the calendar math takes us right back to my move- out imbroglio in December, our last tryst after a breakup desert of nonintimacy. After a brief debate, British Trader confirms her desire to keep the child, whatever my thoughts on the matter. It occurred to me that perhaps this most recent experiment in fertility—and the first—had been planned on British Trader’s part, her back up against the menopause wall, a professional woman with every means at her disposal except a willing male partner—in which case I had been snookered into fatherhood via warm smiles and pliant thighs, the oldest tricks in the book.” “To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round is having to convince five women to do a sixsome with you. The latter is exponentially harder than the former.* * The women analogy breaks down in that, unlike with women, the more investors you seduce into your moresome, the more likely others are to join. This is an expression of the lemming-like nature of tech investors, most of whom scarcely merit the title.” —Antonio Garcia Martinez

throwkeep 5y ago
Out of context excerpts from a 500 page book written in the style of Hunter S. Thompson is not compelling evidence to anyone but the mob and those seeking to be offended. People who have actually read the book don't find them to be so problematic, including the reviewers at New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, Techcrunch and others who gave the book a big thumbs up.
- thelopa 5y ago
  Please try to contextualize those quotes. The context I’ve seen has actually only made them seem worse.