Monday, June 14, 2021

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Anna Wiener
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.

Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, The Week (UK) ...


"A wild and dishy memoir of the bravado, debauchery, idealism, and recklessness of start-up tech culture during the height of Silicon Valley." —Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor

"A definitive document of a world in transition: I won't be alone in returning to it for clarity and consolation for many years to come." --Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, like any good millennial--left a job in book publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress ...

(Excerpt from amazon.com)


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