jPod

I got myself a new book last week – jPod by Douglas Coupland. It is a story about a group of computer programmers living in Vancouver, British Columbia facing issues of today:

"Global piracy, boneheaded marketing staff, people smuggling, the rise of China, marijuana grow ops, Jeff Probst, and the ashes of the 1990s financial tech dream."[1]

Sounds cool, right? I was half way through it, when Antony grabbed it from me to read. He has now finished it, so I can pick up from where I left off.

This book is seen as an update to a previous Coupland novel, Microserfs, for the Google age. Microserfs was about on a group of friends working for Microsoft who started up their own company. I loved that book. It started as a short story in Wired.

If you get a chance, get this book – it’s a fun read.