Cory Doctorow

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• Careless People: Who Killed the Golden Goose?👍 Recommends

  …cory doctorow recommends sarah wynn-williams memoir about facebook diplomacy

  “so my first pick is Sarah Wynne Williams book careless people and it's a great example of the Streisand effect that when a company tries to suppress something it brings it interest so Wynne Williams she was a minor diplomat in the New Zealand diplomatic corps she became quite interested in how Facebook could be a player geopolitically she started to sort of nudge them to give her a job as like an international governmental relations person”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Jules, Penny & the Rooster👍 Recommends

  …cory doctorow recommends daniel pinkwater children's book

  “and then the final book is a kid's book by my favorite kid's book author ever this guy called Daniel Pinkwater and last year he had a book out from Tachyon Press called Jewels, Penny, and the Rooster and recapping the plot of this book would take ten minutes because it is so gonzo and weird but suffice it to say it revolves around a young woman and a talking prize dog who find a haunted woods nearby where the young woman is welcomed by a beauty and the beast story as a savior but who wants no part of it it's funny it's madcap it's gonzo it's full of heart”

  on The Ezra Klein Show

• Little Bosses Everywhere: How American Pyramids Conquered the World👍 Recommends

  …cory doctorow recommends bridget reed book on pyramid schemes

  “my second choice is a book by Bridget Reed it's a book called Little Bosses Everywhere and it's an argument that the American pyramid scheme is kind of the it's the center of our current rot and everywhere you look in the MAGA movement you find people who have been predated upon by the kinds of scams that are characteristic of this and who've adopted the kind of toxic positivity that comes with it it is an incredibly illuminating beautifully researched book”

  on The Ezra Klein Show