Zachary Perkins (Senior Platform Engineer) — 'I just finished Incorruptible by Eric Ries, and I'm walking away with something I didn't expect: hope'

Zachary Perkins, a senior platform engineer, reads the book from the builder's side of the industry it describes. He takes the thesis as an argument against fatalism: the same market forces that produced enshittification and attention extraction are the ones that can undo them, and the people closest to those systems have more leverage than they assume.

“Ries doesn't shy away from the grim reality—greed, enshittification, and the commodification of human attention dominate our digital landscape. But here's the thesis that stuck with me: the same market forces that created these problems can dismantle them. And we're not powerless. As consumers and builders, we hold more leverage than we think.” — Zachary Perkins on LinkedIn