From Optimism to Reckoning: Reflections on Silicon Valley with Steven Levy 7|43

Hello everybody and welcome to the Radical Candor podcast. I'm Kim Scott. And I'm Jason Rozoff, and today we're joined by Stephen Levy. Stephen has been covering Silicon Valley since the days when tech leaders saw themselves as rebels challenging authority, not bending the knee to it. As Wired's editor at large, he's chronicled the evolution from idealistic homebrew computer club.

To today's billionaire CEO at Mar-a-Lago Moment, his recent essays on AI breaking bad, the intrinification trap, and what went wrong in Silicon Valley asked the questions leaders need to hear. How do you maintain your values under pressure? What's the cost of silence? And can an industry that seems to have lost its way find its soul again? Stephen, welcome to Radical Candor.

Great seeing you. Uh, great to see you. What folks may not know about Stephen is that he was one of the early champions of my writing career. I had written a novel about what it was like to work at Google and Stephen read it and wrote a nice article about that. Unpublished novel.

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