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Mis-sold and over-hyped. More space in this book was given over to description of shoes, clothes and food than to actual issues of gender discrimination. Also, quite self-absorbed. Maybe she was not taken seriously in technical companies, because she had zero technical background, not because she happens to be a woman? I am sure there are many men out there who did not make it for this reason. Oh, and another highly annoying thing - hardly anyone has a name, people are just walking job titles an...
As a young person myself, I am interested into anything tech.Though I'm not familiar with all the references she mentioned in the book - and how damn lot they were - I enjoyed this very much.
Too real. I drank at those bars. I ate those salads. I did the scavenger hunt that the team building place by the tunnel puts on. This book was uncomfortable for me to read. But I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a chronicle of a very specific place and a very specific time that suddenly feels decades ago to me.Too. Real.
This isn't exactly a memoir, at least not in a traditional way. And it isn't an exposé of Silicon Valley, since not much in here is very surprising. Wiener takes us in her experience but also holds us at arm's length. Her prose has a level of remove to it: she rarely refers to people or companies by name, she moves us through this brandless, nameless place as if we're seeing it all through a muddying lens that blurs it all. She rarely tells us her own feelings or experiences, you can forget it's...
These are the days of miracles and wonderthis is the long-distance callthe way the camera follows us in slow-mothe way we look to us allthe way we look to a distant constellationthat’s dying in a corner of the skythese are the days of miracles and wonderand don’t cry, baby, don’t cryI heard Paul Simon’s “Boy in the Bubble” in the car this morning and felt the way I always do when I hear it: That it could have been written yesterday. And because I’ve been thinking about Uncanny Valley lately, it
This is the third audiobook I’ve listened to in the past few months that is focused on Silicon Valley. The first two concentrated on the development and life of specific companies, namely Yahoo and Google, whereas this book takes a look at the culture of technology start-ups. Having previously worked in publishing and at a literary agency in New York, Anna Wiener joined a four-person start-up who were developing an eBook reader app. She was to be the person who knew books amongst this small grou...
Silicon Valley, a place in which Anna Wiener was overwhelmingly outnumbered by men in the technological sphere, is still as dominated by white males as it was decades ago. Minorities and female workers are present but not as often as you might believe. Wiener certainly has some mettle to overlook these issues and decide to add at least one more woman to the Silicon Valley workforce. She details some important topics and discusses just how prevalent sexism, unwanted sexual advances and sexual har...
