Darryl Campbell’s Fatal Abstraction: Why the Managerial Class Loses Control of Software seeks to explain the unexplainable digital webs around us. Campbell is both a veteran of the tech world (having worked at Amazon, Uber, Tinder, and other firms) and a chronicler of it (as a former reporter at The Verge). Armed with this experience and perspective, he tells the story of the rise of “managerial software” and the takeover of the tech industry by a class of narrow-minded, bungling elite ...
