A Silicon Valley memoir without a score to settle In fact, there are precious few proper nouns anywhere in Uncanny Valley. The story’s falling action offers partial resolution in the Epilogue, as a disillusioned Wiener decides to leave not only her company but the industry behind. This is a Silicon Valley memoir that is all about one woman’s experience with the raw male id of the industry, a Greek chorus of the perpetually online. Her story ends in a muted, ironic anticlimax as she scrolls through hopeful social media posts as the polls close on Election Night. Technology journalist Wiener looks at Silicon Valley life in this insider-y debut memoir that sharply critiques start. Concerned about the upcoming presidential election, Wiener travels to Nevada to canvass for Hillary Clinton. Readers of Anna Wiener’s wise, witty and ultimately rueful memoir, UNCANNY VALLEY - distracted by the. The memoir that came to be is a brutally honest investigation of the intentions behind Silicon Valleys often megalomaniacal founders, the wild (to outsiders) cultures and practices of tech. 14, 2020 A former tech workerturned-journalist gives the inside scoop on life inside the wickedly weird and wealthy world of Silicon Valley startups. Preparing for an acquisition, the environment at work becomes more rigid and profit-oriented for every effort towards social change, justice, and equity, Wiener finds evidence of persistent inequity and exploitation. Uncanny Valley, Wiener’s biting and funny memoir of her days in San Francisco’s start-up salt mines during the aughts, is a story about wanting to be one thing and becoming its opposite. In the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times on January 12, 2020, an article headlined The Campus Techlash reported that college seniors and recent graduates looking for jobs that are both principled and high-paying are doing so in a world that has soured on Big Tech. UNCANNY VALLEY A MEMOIR by Anna Wiener RELEASE DATE: Jan.

Through social media she befriends a well-known CEO named Patrick, who acts as a foil and debate partner as she grapples with questions of the industry’s social responsibility and growing political power. As she acclimates, the company confronts issues of discrimination and struggles to control widespread abuse of its platform. “Scale,” the second part, charts Wiener’s disenchantment with the industry.

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