Om Malik – Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum (Nov 2016)

Technology commentator Om Malik's essay on Silicon Valley's empathy vacuum is circulating again on Hacker News this week. Originally published in The New Yorker in twenty sixteen, Malik's piece examines the cultural and structural incentives that have shaped how the tech industry builds products and weighs user impact. A decade later, the critique remains a fixture in industry self-examination.

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