Yossi Faybish

The Life and Death of a Hitech Patriot Yossi Faybish

The book describes life in an organization, Scitex in this case, in a very special way - through the 'eyes' of the daily internal communications of this book's author, yours faithfully - Yossi Faybish. Company memos can be an extremely dull affair, writing a book based on these can be as interesting as writing a book based on a lifetime's collection of grocery lists. Well, not quite. Not when they are written with the passion, compassion and fighting spirit these were written with. Actually some of them were defined as real miniature literary gems by some of their readers, and who am I to contradict such renowned and world-wide recognized connoisseurs. The beginning is soaked with enthusiasm, with passion - the passion of starting, the passion of an act of creation, the passion of turning a boring job into a work of art, contributing to a big, bright, wonderful future. Corny? - well, this passion was really there, burning and consuming this writer's life like a thousand fires. Followed by a slower move into the next stage, of keeping all that creation alive, the daily acts of courage and/or cowardice, the numerous tug of war events, with everybody - funnily enough - tugging in the same direction, through ups and downs, but always forward. And then the final act, like in a classical Greek tragedy - with everything falling apart, internal quarrels, betrayals, desperate moves and then, inevitably, the ultimate act - murder. Wait, ho, hooo, waaait - don't rush away, nobody really died, we're talking allegory here, the death of something one created, the death of a dream, the death of a lifetime of passion. The book is 'talking' to you, taking you by the hand from one event to another, from miracle to disaster, from disaster to miracle, from one memo to another, most of the time in a very easy going and entertaining style. And on top of it all you have numerous break-points sprinkled all over the book, with an ongoing very simple yet at times very challenging math quiz, m