Table of Contents
Author's Note x
Part I
This Guy Has No Shame 3
How to Start a Startup 14
Not Your Standard Fixed-Point Combinator 25
Front Page of the Internet 37
It's Online 42
Hell Summer 56
How to Act Like a Real Adult 62
Rounding Error 69
The Algorithm and the Cupboard 78
You Are Making Us Sound Stupid 90
We Are the Nerds 100
The Deal 107
Part II
Chasing That Moment 113
Millionaires' Ball 117
You Aren't a Bank Teller 128
A Moment Before Dying 130
The Physicist, the Information Cowboy, the Hacker, and the Troll 136
Mister Splashy Pants and the Large Hadron Collider 144
Benign Neglect 153
Tools, Yo 160
Part III
Take Me Home 169
The Ones That Got Away 178
Geek Woodstock 189
Exodus and Ill Will 195
Free-Speech Sandbox 203
Blackout 211
Meet Your New CEO 219
NOT BAD! 227
The id 233
Part IV
Omniscient Guardians of the Depths 251
The Internet Bus 267
The 117th Boston Marathon 271
Money on the Mind 278
Every Man Is Responsible for His Own Soul 290
Tiny Boxes 300
Unbelievable Because It's So Weird 306
Closer to Yes 310
The Poltergeist 315
10 324
Part V
Revenge and Revenge Porn 329
Fame and its Inverse 337
AMAgeddon 344
The Return of Steve 356
Fuzzy Approach 363
"Serendipity" and "Bullshit" 375
r/The_Donald 381
Spezgiving 395
What's Good for the United States 402
This Is My Whole Life 406
Reddit4.0 416
Salesman Emeritus 423
Live from Hollywood 432
All Together Now 443
Acknowledgments 454
Sources 457
Notes 459
Index 477