Tech bosses converted their workplaces into whimsical "campuses" with gourmet cafeterias, luxury fitness centers, free dry cleaning and massages, and egg-freezing services so that tech workers could stay on the job through their fertile years without ever taking parental leave.

😧 I had never heard that about the egg-freezing, so I did a quick search and sure enough companies like Apple, Disney, Adobe, Meta, Vanguard, and Intel all offer these services and some even offer sperm freezing. It looks like a nice benefit at first glance, but feels nefarious if you ask me.

I keep thinking about how this book is going to age. The author uses so many words he coined-- enshittification, the Great Enshittening, the Enshittocene-- that it's too gimmicky for my taste. And there are so many references to recent events that I wonder what it will be like to read this book in a few years. In early 2026 I already feel like I'm reading this book after the time it was intended for because of the section about Twitter. My impression so far is that the book is too rooted in today's Zeitgeist for it to be relevant in the future. Unless the internet and other things become even more enshittified.