![]() ![]() 'I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus.' It's sick and evil.'. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their own lives to give anybody else even the scantiest of thoughts. just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s,' muses one programmer. Microserfs 95 likes Like I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. ![]() If youre anything at all like me, youll probably cry and wish it was 1993 all over again. Read it along with Game Over, by David Sheff. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book. Microserfs is a powerful, touching, sad, happy, wonderful time machine. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the '90's, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is not about Microsoft-it's about programmers who are searching for lives. Highly amusing little book of coders all aged 32, mentally if not in years, being obsessed with programming and living their messy student-type lives shaped by. ![]()
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