Blake Elder

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Novels, Short Stories, Essays

About Silicon Valley, dev vs. sqa, ISTJs, and man-hole covers

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Chur, Suisse
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9 November 2021

Arcas Platz

Chur, Suisse
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7 November 2021

Shutter Priority

France, maison
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30 September 2021


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Thirteen Discs

In 1992 Silicon Valley companies had no nap rooms and preferred to hire people with experience. Disruption meant to impede progress. Steve Lewis leaves a company before its IPO for what he hopes will be a more satisfying job. Instead he faces a hostile boss, a difficult projects and outside of work, a series of bad dates.




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The Enormous Network and Other Stories

They write code and configure computers, design the UI and test software. A tech support department learns too well from the roles of Al Pacino; an engineering team breaks its own software; an interview candidate becomes an unexpected consultant. These are some of the twelve stories about life in Silicon Valley.


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Maybe Marseille

The previous working title was Dog Shit Nation, but that might hurt sales in France.

I swore I would not write a book about France. Even before France was France, outsiders have been travelling here then writing about their experiences. My first exposure to the genre was Charles Joyce' seventh grade Latin I: our first text was from C. Iulius De Bello Gallico:



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