I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59

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Title: I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59
Author: Douglas Edwards
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Year: 2011
432 pages
Audiobook

Fine so far as it goes. Edwards chronicles (often thematically rather than chronologically) his adventures as an early employee in Google's start-up phase. I found it interesting to read about Google, and interesting for a while to read about Edwards's interactions with company personnel and culture. However, the latter topic can be summed up more often than not as, "I suggested something, it was/wasn't adopted, I turned out to be wrong." The moral of the story might be "Grit your teeth, don't see your family for years, go on mandated recreational trips with bosses who act like adolescents, and hang on until the IPO, when you can cash out."