I guess there are different ways to read this book. I designed it to make people see Silicon Valley in 3D. Like the cover does: it shows Silicon Valley in a bubble, and this bubble is also a world, seen from space. You can see here the different layers of perspectives present in the book. More precisely, the book shows tech in 3 dimensions: first, its space, because Silicon Valley is a place; second, through time, because Silicon Valley has a history, and pretend to build up the future; third, through tech itself, because code, programmation interfaces, API, models, and so forth, composed the work and cognitive environment of techies. They are like Neo in the Matrix. A matrix invisible to non-technical people. Going through the book, the reader can also pick one chapter, like the one on programmers, if he wonders about this weird but important professional tribe. Or the one about Burning Man, for getting a better idea of how and why people in a very rational world renew their own enchantment. And if you’re tired of my sociological analysis, you can just skip them and get to the quotes of the interviewees. The book relies on more than 150 interviewees and displays a large collection of original quotes. Finally, you can compare the tone of the introduction and of the conclusion. Like I said, I started my field work in 2015. It was the year before the first election of Donald Trump in the Presidential election. Very few supported Trump in tech at that time. I finished the book in 2025. Right before his second election. A lot of tech leaders have supported him since then. I guess it’s a sufficient timeline to both avoid stereotypes and get a clearer picture about the evolution of tech, as an industry and a world which has become so important in our economy, politics, and life.Thanks to the book, I hope that general readers will get a better understanding of the tech industry, without demonizing or idolizing it. That also means that people in tech get a better understanding of their own world, history, and the limitations of their tendency to see everything as a system. Maybe at some point, my two kids, when they are an age to choose a job or just use Silicon Valley products, will read the book to know and understand where they come from. And if I got a Delorean and was able to get it back ten years ago, I would gladly give this book to the 2015 me, saving myself ten years of hard work on tech!