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.
I’ll be speaking about the book at this year’s SXSW Interactive conference on March 8, 2025.
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