Brands, names of apps, titles of moviesWiener tends to avoid. Wiener is an entertaining writer, and those interested in a behind-the-scenes look at life in Silicon Valley will want to take a look. One of the first things you notice about Anna Wiener’s Silicon Valley memoir Uncanny Valley is the author’s elegant elision. Today's installment: Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley Unsolicited book review Tuesday: Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation Michael MacBride 1 view 2 weeks ago 24 HOUR READATHON how many. The optimism of capital, power, and opportunity. She eventually became disillusioned with her job (“I was burning out and failing up”) and left in 2018 to pursue writing, but not before buying up her vested stock options. It was a year of new optimism: the optimism of no hurdles, no limits, no bad ideas. Wiener humorously describes the employee perks at the office (“a miniature theme park” with a wraparound bar, a roof deck, a speakeasy), though she decided to primarily work from home “in sagging leggings.” Wiener writes of how she struggled to be taken seriously in a male-dominated industry that lacked diversity attended lavish work events-at a Michelin-starred restaurant in Lake Tahoe-while San Francisco’s homeless population increased communicated with coworkers using just emoji and watched 20-somethings get rich overnight. That job led to a move to San Francisco, where she worked in customer support at a data analytics start-up, then at a start-up that focused on software development. In 2013, Wiener left an assistant job at a New York literary agency to work for an e-book start-up run by young men who were uninterested in reading books.

I read on the Paris Review blog the source for business information that this startup was doing like a Netflix for ebooks product and they had raised 3 million.

Technology journalist Wiener looks at Silicon Valley life in this insider-y debut memoir that sharply critiques start-up culture and the tech industry. Anna Wiener’s Uncanny Valley follows her immersion into the industry at the apex of its disruptomania her entry point into tech is through a job at.

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