Booktalking - The book Meta can't face, billionaire brainworms, fact-checking and fair use

In our latest installment in this series, hosts Michael Tamblyn and Nathan Maharaj caught up on a book whose author they're not going to get to interview.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Meta's problem with an ex-employee's tell-all memoir
• The cognitive perils of being a billionaire
• The publishing perils of nonfiction
• Moving fast and breaking things as sage wisdom from the elders of Silicon Valley
• LibGen and the fight in the courts over Faire Use in AI models

Books mentioned:

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - A Memoir by Sarah Wynn-Williams
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg