Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008The book begins with a diagram… a mishmash of squares, circles, dots and dashes and crisscrossing edges: something to inspire another Tufte book. The difficult diagram sets the tone for the rest of the work, a careless presentation full of circular and square nodes, and edges coded with several variations of dots and dashes. In fact, the graph is planar.
Sarah Lacy takes the fundamentally captivating and unexpected story of the founders behind the second wave of internet innovation and makes it inexplicably dull and confused. She demonstrates a lack of critical thinking and cannot afford to criticize the folks she is reporting on, since the future of her career depends on maintaining their trust.
