{"title":"Books by Dan Lyons","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780957256088","title":"Tinners Hare","description":"\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295499727221,"sku":"9780957256088","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780957256088_f4bbdc62-bdbd-4642-aeda-839a275de9aa.jpg?v=1786015722"},{"product_id":"9781786491022","title":"Disrupted","description":"\u003cp\u003eDan Lyons was Technology Editor at \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old and with a wife and two young kids, Dan was unemployed and facing financial oblivion. Then an idea hit. Dan had long reported on Silicon Valley and the tech explosion. Why not join it? HubSpot, a Boston start-up, was flush with $100 million in venture capital. They offered Dan a pile of stock options for the nebulous role of \"marketing fellow.\" What could possibly go wrong? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What follows is a hilarious and excoriating account of Dan's time at the start-up and a revealing window onto the dysfunctional culture that prevails in a world flush with cash and devoid of experience. Filled with stories of meaningless jargon, teddy bears at meetings, push-up competitions and all-night parties, this uproarious tale is also a trenchant analysis of the dysfunctional start-up world, a de facto conspiracy between those who start companies and those who fund them. It is a world where bad ideas are rewarded with hefty investments, where companies blow money lavishing perks on their post-collegiate workforces, and where everybody is trying to hang on just long enough to cash out with a fortune.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304888349045,"sku":"9781786491022","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786491022_5730c23e-022c-424a-876f-caba966229e7.jpg?v=1786026143"},{"product_id":"9781786493941","title":"Lab Rats","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Non-Fiction, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tablet\u003c\/i\u003e's Highlights of 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersonality tests. Team-building exercises. Forced Fun. Desktop surveillance. Open-plan offices. Acronyms. Diminishing job security. Hot desking. 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From the gig economy to the new digital oligarchs, Lyons deliciously roasts the new work climate, while asking what can be done to recoup some sanity and dignity for the expanding class of middle-class serfs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305662656885,"sku":"9781786493941","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786493941_d561e7ec-3783-4fb6-80db-48c87bf12272.jpg?v=1786026190"},{"product_id":"9780008520847","title":"STFU","description":"\u003cp\u003eWould our lives, relationships and careers be better if we just STFU for a while?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe live in a world that doesn’t just encourage overtalking, but practically demands it. When success is measured by how much attention we can attract, how long we can hold on to the mic, it’s no wonder that we feel compelled to spout endlessly on Twitter, to document every detail of our lives on Instagram, start that podcast, or lead that conference. And yet, oddly enough, the most powerful and accomplished people in the world aren’t part of that chorus—they’re reserved, they listen, and when they do speak they’re considered. Tim Cook, President Obama, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg all have seemed to understand the secret golden rule: talk less, get more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are entire industries designed to help us amplify our voices, experts who are just dying to coach us on how to talk better, but nobody is teaching us how to STFU for a while.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer Forbes journalist Dan Lyons takes us on a sharp, funny, fascinating deep dive through our incessant noise-making – talking to communications experts, neuroscientists, psychiatrists and Silicon Valley executive coaches the world over to understand the science and culture behind why we can’t stop talking, and how ultimately we can learn to speak less – and with more intention – to improve our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311516463477,"sku":"9780008520847","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780008520847_e0e567d5-292f-420d-88c6-bdce90b8d706.jpg?v=1785658562"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-dan-lyons.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}