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“I have said many times that I have covered the most consequential story of our times over these past three decades. Silicon Valley and the tech industry it spawned have birthed the most world changing set of companies in history.” source
Journalist and podcast host
Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher is a technology journalist who co-founded Recode, hosts On with Kara Swisher, and co-hosts Pivot with Scott Galloway. A former Wall Street Journal and New York Times opinion writer, she is the author of AOL.com, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere, and the 2024 memoir Burn Book: A Tech Love Story.
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Recommendations
2024
Most recent list
Non-Fiction
Most-recommended
On the record
All Kara Swisher book recommendations.
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“I reread it every year. It's a great book; it still is.” source
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“I read over and over again, like three or four times a year. It's so beautifully constructed. She's so wise.” source
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“John Carreyrou is the Wall Street Journal reporter who broke the Theranos story and wrote a fantastic book about it called Bad Blood.” source
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“Antonio Garcia Martinez used to run Facebook's ad targeting team and then wrote a book about it called Chaos Monkeys, which doesn't mince words about its subjects.” source
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“Great book on Uber.” source
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“Quite good and surprisingly a love letter to the Internet as it was.” source
№ 08
“Hearing her deliver these blue flame insights, one after another, that are so exactly right on the internet landscape, inspires. Highly recommend.” source
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“Buy it, I command.” source
№ 10
“Michael Pollan's new book, How to Change Your Mind, is a wonderful look at the history and the future of psychedelics.” source
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“One of my favorite books.” source
№ 12
“I'm not a religious person but it really had an impact on me.” source
Readers with overlapping taste
