Once Your Lucky, Twice your Good by Sarah Lacy
This morning I finally put this book to bed. I have to admit, I am crazy about the voice of Sarah Lacy on most days, it is informal, and inside the room, and all the rest. But on other days I find myself looking for a deeper analysis of this wave of stuff…this macrocosm of bleech that is the new Web world. So I found myself reading this book so I can use it as a reference to the essay I am working on about the failure of social media, and I think the book helped me quite a bit.
It does have a ton of sort of hot boy worship of Kevin Rose. This fits in with the sort of Julia Allison, Sarah Lane, voiced stuff on the internet. A sort of tech Sex in the City kind of smarmy vibe to it. In this, the idea of Kevin and his discheveled hair, or his love of tea being somehow charecteristics to explore teake precedent over the wildly significant effect that Digg has had. Even going so far as to not mention the created DIGG EFFECT on a story of company. Rather we read about Kevin as party boy. I had hoped for something more I suppose.
But, the fact is I love that Sarah Lacy took this on. She got famously crushed at a public interview at SXSW (I think) where the crowd booed her. She did not back down, and wrote a pretty darn good book about her friends, and the stuff they have done.
I think it was a little too focused on her famous friends, and a little lacking in a focus outside of the people she knows, but all of that reservation was cancelled when I read the Epilogue. It was the best story telling she pulled off, the most inspirational part of the book. She told a story of Max of PayPal fame going to the doctor as a child. It was a great story.
That story alone makes Sarah Lacy one of my favorite writer. Thank you for this book
Tom Neal said:
Dude,
“You’re” not “Your”
August 19th, 2008 at 8:05 am #