Name: Nudist on the Lateshift and Other Tales (Silicon Valley)
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Published by VINTAGE , 2000, softcover, 252 pages, overall condition: very good.

Entrepreneurs and tech wizards, immigrants and investors, dreamers and visionaries are heading West to seek their fortune.Their Mecca is Silicon Valley - where one person can achieve so much with just initiative, talent and a good idea.Meet David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo and worth over $500 million, who still sleeps under his desk one night a week. Meet the 26 year-old who is already on his fifth start-up venture. Meet the man with the biggest brain in the world. Meet the nudist who works the late shift.

""I had a Realtor down in Santa Clara show me a three-bedroom ranch home priced to move at half a million

Who can afford to buy a house now? I exclaimed.
Then she told me how housing prices had gone up $1,000 a week this past year, with no end in sight.
She said, At that rate, who can afford not to buy a house now?

Reading journalism about the near past always seems help me put the present media into better perspective; and so, in 2008, I reread this portrait of Silicon Valley when it was at the height of the Internet bubble in 1999.

I think Po Bronson is one of the best contemporary new journalists at capturing the timeless human element of business stories. But, Po Bronson is at his worst when he starts pontificating about what it all means. (For example, in the introduction he makes the blanket statement that every generation that came before us had to make a choice in life between pursuing a steady career and pursuing wild adventures. Really? The employees of the East India Company, or the space program, or thousands of other endeavors since the dawn of time might feel differently.) While there is plenty of heres how the rules have changed bluster in this same vein, the benefit of hindsight makes it easier to just grin and move past these pronouncements and onto the next part of the story.

The fact that this book still makes for a worthwhile read even when so much of the irrational exuberance has now been tempered by reality is a testament to Mr. Bronsons contagious fascination with people who follow their passions." (text from "Nudist on the Lateshift and Other Tales").

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