Nudist on the Late ShiftPo Bronson

Nudist on the Late Shift

Name: Nudist on the Late Shift
ISBN: 9780099289074

by Po Bronson · first published 2000

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Wry, character-driven look at Silicon Valley's late-1990s dot-com boom, drawn from Bronson's Wired writing; suits readers curious about startup culture and its wacky era.

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whyleyc · Apr 18, 2020 · Recommends

…first-person account of the hunt for a computer hacker who broke into a computer at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory[1] - Founders at Work, for early Silicon Valley startup stories[2] - The Nudist on the Late Shift by Po Bronson, for similarly wacky late ‘90s/early 2000’s startup stories[3] [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98233.Founders_at_Work [3]…
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packetslave · Mar 28, 2020 · Recommends

There's "The Nudist on the Late Shift" by Po Bronson, which is an expansion on his various Wired writing from the Dotcom era. It's pretty good. https://www.amazon.com/Nudist-Shift-Other-Silicon-Valley/dp/... You can read the first (and…
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prepend · Apr 12, 2023 · Recommends

…https://www.grahammann.net/book-notes/conspiracy-ryan-holida... PS- are there any other business/tech “case study” type books out there. I also liked Clifford Stoll’s Cuckoo’s Egg, John Brooks’ Business Adventures, Michael Lewis’ Liar’s Poker, Po Bronson’s Nudist on the Late Shift, and David Kaplan’s Silicon Boys. Looking for more of what I suspect is more common than I can find.
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xo5vik · Aug 22, 2023 · Recommends

>What other similar books would you recommend? Similar era at least: Po Bronson - The Nudist on the Late Shift ... and other tales of Silicon Valley (1999)
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dave_sullivan · Aug 20, 2011 · Recommends

…------------Tech------------ "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison" (Oracle, Ellison, the birth of the DB) "The New New Thing" (about Jim Clark, netscape, SGI, what became webmd) "In the plex" (Google) "The Nudist on the Late Shift" (kind of like founders at work, a bit light but hey) "Hackers" (by Stephen Levy, again, kind of light, but entertaining) "The Hacker Crackdown" (by Bruce Sterling, entertaining) ------------General…
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blakesterz · Apr 2, 2019 · Recommends

The Nudist On The Late Shift is a great one. The Nat Geo TV series "Valley Of The Boom" was on earlier this year, that was entertaining.
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TooMuchNick · Jan 26, 2009 · Mentions

Po Bronson's book "The Nudist on the Late Shift" says that CitySearch cold-called all kinds of businesses in every city it launched in. Have you read enough articles about Yelp to see if they did the same? Incidentally, how do you plan to win people…
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js2 · Feb 26, 2018 · Mentions

…aware of drug use by colleagues with the exception of one person, but even that was hearsay to me. Some of the stories I read about SV, I wonder how I could be missing so much (see for example, "The Nudist on the Late Shift"). That said, I tend to keep to myself. For me, work is work, and play is play, and I'd rather not cross the lines. 46 y/o, highly compensated software developer, married, father of two, used marijuana…
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