Our beloved tech founders have special powers or unusual abilities. This fascination with intelligence and talent started in 1840 with Thomas Carlyle's Great Man Myth. We touch on that historically, but then zoom forward in time to the present technobabble mania, where startups are rocketships and founders are rockstars. The book shows anyone how to spot the myth, how to dispel it, but then, should they so choose, how to become the myth themselves.
