The Silicon Valley Canon

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  • Author: T. Greer
  • Full Title: The Silicon Valley Canon
  • Category:articles
  • Summary: The Silicon Valley intellectual culture values action and big ideas, prioritizing intelligence and knowledge as tools for innovation. Unlike the political elites in Washington, who focus on authority and expertise, Silicon Valley thinkers are drawn to interesting and novel insights. A vague canon of influential books shapes their mindset, emphasizing biographies and histories that reflect a “great man” theory of progress.
  • URL: https://scholarstage.substack.com/p/the-silicon-valley-canon

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