Alex Dobrenko

I’ve recently begun to visit the internet. There, I’ve found cement, metal gates, water tanks, miles of solar farms, buzzing wires, fiber optic trenches, and towers. Data centers, often hidden from the everyday ‘user,’ house rows of blinking servers containing the vast contents of our digital lives. Inside these electronics lie conductive... See more

our job is also to understand what people think they want and then translate the value of Slack into their terms.

Like many other dramatized conversations in AHWOSG , the Q&A—46 pages long, even longer than the book’s front matter—devours itself, transforming from quasi-realistic representation of an actual event to a meta self-interrogation, in which Eggers describes the comfort of his own upbringing, movingly reveals his late father’s alcoholism, and defends... See more