Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (by Antonio García Martinez)

The first part of this book is about Martinez creating and selling a startup, deciding between offers from Facebook and Twitter, semi-stabbing his co-founders in the back, and giving a sardonic, inside look into Silicon Valley culture.  His writing style is impressive and his personality in this first half is almost endearingly douchey. (Like douchey, clearly a tech bro of the highest order, but self-aware about it.)

Part two is all about his tenure at Facebook, developing an ad product that he's way more interested in explicating than his readers are in reading about it. I work in the tech industry and had friends at Facebook at the same time as Martinez, and he's pretty no-holds-barred in how he discusses the various players, so that part is fun. But that sense of self-awareness seems to dim and although he pays lip service to the gender issues in tech, he clearly has no interest in helping to solve them.  (He goes to Facebook rather than Twitter because he scorns the idea of work-life balance, which is one way the tech industry excludes women, and also, he has children, so.... maybe give that a thought.) And the way he describes women -- essentially only as potential sex partners -- is wearying. 

Also, by the end he is bitter that Facebook made all this money off of his engineering brilliance and he "only" makes a million dollars a year, so he decides he has this dream to sail around the world, while his only interest in his young children seems to be throwing enough money at them that they can to go Stanford and he doesn't actually need to interact with them.

So the guy doesn't come off well by the end of it. But his writing is surprisingly erudite and seems authentic to who he is -- which is, again, a douchey tech bro. If you work in the Valley, you may be entertained enough to read it all the way to the end. I was.