How to Silicon Valley, a place so known for out-of-the-box and independent ideas, fall so often into groupthink?

We'll get into it right after this.

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That's OKTA.com. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed and nuanced

conversation of the tech world and beyond. Boy, do we have a show for you

today. We're joined today by Ellen Ewitt. She is a features writer at Bloomberg News and the author

of a new book. And here it is. It's called Empire of Orgasm, Sex, Power, and the Downfall of a Wellness

Cult. Wild title, definitely a parental guidance episode. So if you have

kids, I would definitely recommend to reverse to our more recent episodes. And if you don't,

I think you're really going to enjoy this one because we are going to get into how Silicon Valley

so often falls into group think, whether it is, you know, sort of the off-campus activities they do, or even when it

comes to things like this AI bubble and the pet, the pursuit of AGI. And Ellen is the perfect

person to speak with us about this. So, Ellen, great to see you. Thanks for having me. Welcome to the

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