Kara Swisher

Chrysta Bilton is the author of this amazing book, called Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings, a memoir of her unconventional childhood and her revelation that her father was a prolific sperm donor. ... I loved the book. It's fantastic.

Kara Swisher

My mini review of Musk bio: Sad & smart son slowly morphs into mentally abusive father he abhors except with rockets, cars & more money. Often right, sometimes wrong, petty jerk always. Might be crazy in good way, but also a bad way. Pile o’ babies. Not Steve Jobs. You’re…

Kara Swisher

In her new memoir, she recounts her long career in journalism, including her time as the public editor of the New York Times.

Kara Swisher

Anyway, this is a really wonderful book and you are a really wonderful writer. I think that's the best part of it. ... it's a really fun and easy read and also full of just really vivid writing. ... I think a lot of people should pick it up.

Kara Swisher

Only $20m? I’ll be more impressed when it’s not just the change in Thiel’s couch for a startup: Vivek Ramaswamy, who wrote a book called “Woke, Inc.,” has started a fund manager that would urge companies not to wade into social or environmental issues https://www.wsj.com/articles/upstart-money-manager-gets-billionaires-to-back-the-anti-blackrock-11652134919

Kara Swisher

Fascinating... really interesting.

Kara Swisher

Creators like ⁦@waltmossberg⁩ and I have one credo: Thank you; next. Better said by Tom Stoppard in “Arcadia”: “We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind … https://t.co/Q8vywyelNp

Kara Swisher

@tobyredshaw I think they were a lot more culpable than you think. Read Hitler’s Willing Executioners Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust https://t.co/oloWz3WUW4

Kara Swisher

This is a perfect done profile by ⁦@rtraister⁩ on ⁦@katiecouric⁩: “Like Couric herself, it is surprisingly spiky and weird and seemingly committed to absolute chaos.” https://www.thecut.com/2021/10/katie-couric-memoir-going-there.html

Kara Swisher

Some history: Here is an interesting piece I did in 2016 on David Sacks, who is now one of the leaders at Twitter, in which he apologized calling rape “belated regret” in a book he wrote with Peter Thiel in 1996. Note too $70k to @HillaryClinton campaign