Darryl Campbell

Darryl is the author of FATAL ABSTRACTION: WHY THE MANAGERIAL CLASS LOSES CONTROL OF SOFTWARE, a book that traces the roots of many of the technological disasters of the last decade to the takeover of Big Tech by the managerial class and its ruthless focus on financial metrics and "value engineering." He spent fifteen years working in Big Tech, and now runs a consulting company. His writing has appeared in The Verge, GQ, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.