Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, startup culture, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, The New Republic, and n+1, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. She lives in San Francisco. Uncanny Valley is her first book.
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age
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.
Anna arrived during a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building.
Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley, is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment.
Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
評分Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
有些段落和描寫還滿好笑的 twitter抖機靈的那種好笑。。這個題材怎麼說有些疲憊 年輕人工作就工作羅
评分年輕人誰不是在找meaning呢?文筆挺好的,但是一看就是東海岸liberal arts college齣來的(和new yorker雜誌的文風非常一緻瞭)
评分Life of a non nerd among nerds.
评分For many millennials, including Anna, the promise of impactful work – and reliable health insurance – from a job in Silicon Valley was too much to resist. But once she became aware of the industry’s darker side and learned to value her skills differently, she was able to leave her high-paying job and find meaning in her work.
评分Life of a non nerd among nerds.
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