Big Tech has lost its way. My book Fatal Abstraction explains just how it happened.
For fifteen years, I was a tech industry insider. I worked at behemoths such as Amazon and Uber, and at tiny startups you’ve never heard of. I witnessed Big Tech’s greatest triumphs, and took part in some of its worst failures. And now, I’ve written a book that argues that things are about to get much worse—unless the industry starts looking at more than just financial statements.
Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software publishes April 8, 2025 and will be available at your local bookstore, Amazon, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and elsewhere.
My other writing has appeared at The Verge, GQ, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. To read any of these stories, check out the features or articles pages.
I’ve been been cited by the US House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, the world’s top experts on autonomous weapons, and the International Council on Systems Engineering. It has been taught as a case study at Stanford, the University of Toronto, and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
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