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The Circle

February, 14 2014 by Nathanael Yellis

While you have to endure several characters whose role is to preach Eggers' views on the Internet, this is an inspiring book.

In fact, it launched this whole 50 in 2014 effort.

Eggers' message is that our hyper-connected world has a cost. When literally everything becomes a stat in your Klout score, you start to view everything through it, and that lens distorts.

Exploring this utopian/distopian future through Eggers' eyes is fun. Buckle for some spiels, but it's nothing like what Ayn Rand puts us through.

My takeaway from this book is simple: I need to internet less and read more. And I turned that into a goal: read 50 books in 2014.

Reading fifty books in 2014 is my way of rejecting the online world. The CircleThe Circle by Dave Eggers
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

 
Nathanael Yellis
Nathanael Yellis

Nathanael Yellis is a solution architect at HubSpot. He started his HubSpot career as a consultant on the professional services team in 2017. Prior to that, he led a client services team for a marketing agency and worked as a non-profit marketer and technology leader in Washington, DC. He holds an MBA from the Acton School of Business, is from Maine, and lives on the North Shore of Massachusetts.