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Soul and Silicon: Spirits in a High-Tech World

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I live and work in Silicon Valley, and I found this book to be entertaining as well as informative, with the "ring" of authenticity. The personal stories in this book, as told by the people who lived them and fought the daily battles and reaped the rewards, are the kind of revelations that most of us would never hear unless we were psychologists or spiritual advisors working in Silicon Valley. I enjoyed every page.

Carl Goldman strikes a delicious balance between that which we seek and that which we hide from. He collects and confronts the nagging questions, the quiet whispers and subtle signposts we speed past on our way to empty arenas of success and smoke-and-mirrors versions of fulfillment. The people interviewed, and Goldman himself, have offered here a map and a compass to help us go as far as we need to travel in order to arrive home safely within our hearts. In a world of high-tech, mach-2, anonymous communication, Carl Goldman sits down next to a roaring fire with an inkwell and a fountain pen and communicates with an ease and a clarity no amount of megahertz or modem speed can touch.