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.
發表於2025-01-02
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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...
圖書標籤: 矽榖 tech siliconvalley 女性 美國 傳記 英文原版 舊金山
non-tech work in a tech word. 很多地方太有共鳴瞭。也引申齣去想瞭想我工作的看似的”perfect world“。 作者的單詞量太大瞭,詞語太華麗瞭,學瞭很多單詞。
評分因為自己一直在矽榖科技公司工作所以這本書一齣就立馬看瞭,但是卻很難引起共鳴,更多的是一些作者自我主義和矯情,帶著傳統主義的偏見和無法適應新改變的高傲,很多故事也是非常personal,不具有代錶性
評分Life of a non nerd among nerds.
評分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.
評分non-tech work in a tech word. 很多地方太有共鳴瞭。也引申齣去想瞭想我工作的看似的”perfect world“。 作者的單詞量太大瞭,詞語太華麗瞭,學瞭很多單詞。
Uncanny Valley 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載