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Tim Hwang is a writer and researcher, currently the general counsel at Substack. for me, the action is the juice / letter: https://t.co/Taapwkm4wM / senior tech fellow: @ifp / proprietor: https://t.co/LR6pUYuhsU / co-founder: https://t.co/8AtNLBdZI6

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Book Cover for: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, Clay Shirky

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Clay Shirky
Tim HwangTim Hwang

“Here Comes Everybody” [is] filled with excitement about the promise of social technology and social media. And I think it’s so interesting to revisit that rhetoric just because I think it teaches us a bunch of lessons about what went right, what went wrong.

Paperback, 2009

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World, Sally Denton

The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World

Sally Denton
Tim HwangTim Hwang

“The Profiteers” is about this company Bechtel, which is one of the big companies that helped build the Hoover Dam, and basically became the mega infrastructure builders of the 20th century. It’s completely fascinating — explains much of the west, explains nuclear power.

Paperback, 2017

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

Robert A. Caro
Tim HwangTim Hwang

🎭🌆🛣 an immersive interactive theater experience like meow wolf but it’s robert caro’s “the power broker”

Paperback, 1975

$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, Sherry Turkle

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Sherry Turkle
Tim HwangTim Hwang

@brianjoesmith it's sherry turkle's "alone together"! reading it for web 2.0 book club

Paperback, 2017

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book