(I actually have even more rant that I wrote up but could not figure out how to shoehorn in a way that even kind of followed any kind of flow.)

Lol, yeah, I could never read this book, I would still be ranting 10 years later. You're right that it would have been much better as a straight up "here's my experience" memoir.

And is not around tech people at all, which would falsify some of her hypotheses pretty quickly.

Like, deductive vs. inductive thinking. I ask you! Is she not familiar with even basic stereotypes?