flooz was ahead of its time

plus sperm racing, daytime wives and Mthcaal Lewis

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Buddies! What is your favorite narrative nonfiction book about tech? Here is an incomplete stack of books I have been relying on while I work on mine:

These are not necessarily my favorites or even recommendations, to be clear. Some are for reference and some are for inspiration. Some I look to for motivation to get better and juicier reporting, and some to step up my writing. (A book about the ZIRP era needs to balance astute economic analysis with maximum absurdity.)

Some I have never even read in full (sorry, Bubbles and Crashes). But I have read many books about tech over the years. Probably too many. So you’d think I’d have a decent instinct on how to piece together a compelling book-length piece of journalism. In reality, there is nothing so humbling as attempting to do it yourself. Turns out I’m not immune to that nagging feeling of, is this any good? Is this useful or at least entertaining? Will anyone give a shit? Sources often ask me questions like that during an interview and lately, I genuinely do not know the answer.

So I’ve found myself grabbing a random business book from the shelf, flipping to a random chapter and trying to imagine how the author got there. What their outline and process looked like. Whether or not they are as disorganized as I am (impossible). How this part fits into the whole in order to make a book actually good.

In the process I have encountered some gems. The green Fortune compilation (For Some, The Dream Came True), contains a 1931 essay blaming the existence of modern offices on women and explaining how female secretaries became the “daytime wives” of important Business Heroes™. And F’d Companies consists of a lot of very poorly aged jokes conveyed in the worst style of early blogger writing, but it is amusing to see how the some of most-mocked dotcom ideas have come back around.

FLOOZ.com is nothing compared to the crypto shitcoins of today… Safemoon, Shiba, LUNA, C*mRocket, GOGE (Doge Gay Son) . The difference, I guess, is that the stupidity is now the point. Sometimes its hard to tell the difference.

In other news

Startup everyone’s into: Sperm racing.

Startup everyone’s over: STOP CALLING EVERYTHING SLOP.

Reason to go on living: A smart take on AGI.

Reason to take up residence under your weighted blanket: Skinny jeans are already “back.”

Latest crush: This wonderful hit of nostalgia about NYC restaurants.

Latest heartbreak: Crypto criminals are still kidnapping whales.

Latest thing the kids are into: A new sci-fi fiction magazine called Tractor Beam.

Latest thing the Business Heroes are into: Feeling jealous of Palmer Luckey’s billionaire boys groupchat.

Latest thing the olds are into: VC becoming PE.

Latest jargon: AEO is the new SEO

Latest justification: This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person.

a dall-e summary of this newsletter:

LOL. Some good guesses here, but my favorite is obviously MICHAEL LEWIS by Mthcaal Lewis. (I did not upload my own image in the prompt.)

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