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7. Picks & Shovels/ Cory Doctorow

Sun Mar 23, 2025, 12:23 PM

Mar 23

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The Martin Hench origin story. 1986 San Francisco. Start up tech culture before the bros showed up. Fast paced with lots of details like the moosewood cookbook and mosh pits at a Dead Kennedys bar gig.

Kinda makes me sad at what could have been.

Since this is du, I should mention:
AIDS
Crack
Emptied mental hospitals
South American wars and murdered nuns

Doctorow touches on them all very lightly. If you read fast, you might miss ‘I heard it had to do with Reagan. Seems like everything has to do with Reagan.’

And the characters carry on. Just like most people.

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