tithe story is fictionalized by frank norris that's a novelistic history. it's also really great and has amazing sections. therepo is prestly. he's a naive guy who has written this poem. he goes to see sheldon that's partoa of the railroad barrons fictionalized. he talks his way into the back office and not only will he talk to himhe but he read the poem te toiers. he hascata a critical take on te poem and the naive poet finds himself in conversation with the face of capitol. that's the conversation we will be having right now as soon as i take a sip of water. >> i supposed you believe i'm the grand old raskle. >> i believe, he hesitated searching for his words. >> believe this, young man. >> explained sheldon laying his forefinger on the table. >> try to believe this. to begin with that railroads build themselves. where there is a demand sooner or later there will be a supply. mr. derrick, does he grow his wheat? the wheat grows itself. what does he count for? does he supply the force? what do i count for? do i build the railroad? you are dealing with forc

what's actually going on goes all the way back to the sort of conflict that we're talking about in frank norris norris. the problem with seeing these guys as like the inventors instead of the the amalgamation of social is that you end up thinking that the world is a product of like rich guys, personalities. and so like, you know, we live in the world that we live in because steve jobs is the guy that steve jobs is. and that's not true. that's just false, right? steve jobs is. steve jobs is the guy that steve jobs is. wow. that's a tongue twister was r.i.p. steve jobs. because the social situation called him into being in the same way that it called someone like leland stanford into being. and there have been critiques of these people the whole way through. so when i talk about in the book is mike malone is that classic of silicon valley a classic columnist in silicon valley, a really great writer, underrated, i think in some ways compared to some of his peers. but he talks about early apple and he's got this great critique of early apple where he says, like behind all this doody, steve jobs --

but a section for 1901 novel the octopus a california story by frank norris which is quoted extensivelyn the book but because we've got patrick, here it's the occasion to a dramatic dialogue was irresistible to me. and so we are going to judge pretty quick were going to try to keep this whole thing kind of quick we can get down to signing books for all of the many people here. a little bit about this book, this book is written in 1901 about a conflict over the settlements of california. settlers come in and are offered land at a certain price by the railroad has long as they settle the real set of occurrences. the owner of the land happens to be stanford then changes his mind they change their mind site no that's improved alanna belongs to us you can buy it back from us. this triggers an insurrectionary battle with the settlers who want to claim their land the story is fictionalized by frank norris in the octopus which is a noted work of early early california novelistic history. it is also really great. it's got some amazing sections. so in this section there is a presley who is he soc