“Guys were positive that I had been writing about them,” Borsook wrote in Cyberselfish. Borsook, an author and poet, began working in Silicon Valley in 1981, first as a technical writer for software companies. “Totally Rip van Winkle all the time here,” Borsook told me recently by email. “He complained,” Borsook wrote, “about how the local Tahoe building code wouldn’t let him alter the silhouette of his megachalet. Today the leadership class of modern-day Silicon Valley is simply dominated by cultural and religious conservatism.