Burn Book by Kara Swisher

I feel like I should have read this when it came out and then everything that is happening/unraveling in 2025 would have come as less of a shock--shocking still but more obvious as to what was to come. This is a memoir, the author recounting her life in journalism in Silicon Valley, but it is also an expose of the top guns in tech, who they are, what they care about, and most importantly, what they do not give a crap about. She also does a decisive take down of Elon Musk, having sussed him out early on and ruffling his dainty feathers. She is straight forward, brusque even, and she had a front row seat to the whole thing unfolding, sharing in the hopes for what tech could do to change the world, and then seeing how it could unravel democracy in the wrong hands--which is where we are now. I think this is something everyone should read and think about, and maybe hope we heed the warning signs of just how bad these people really are, and what can we do about it now that all her fears are coming to fruition.