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Book uncanny valley6/6/2023 ![]() The book covers the myopic solipsism of the tech world - but it also captures its best and most utopian impulses. ![]() Those years provide the raw material for her critically acclaimed new memoir Uncanny Valley, which paints a portrait of Silicon Valley in the boom period of 2013 through 2016. Wiener, who is now a contributing writer for the New Yorker, spent her years in tech working on the soft skills side, helping companies interact with human beings. ![]() She packed up and moved to San Francisco. She came to the conclusion that the best place for ambitious and bright young people not in publishing. A few years after graduation, Wiener found herself stuck in a job as an assistant at a literary agency with no clear path for advancement. ![]() When Anna Wiener graduated from college in 2009, she did what so many ambitious young women who cared about books and intellectual culture did before her: She moved to New York to try to make it in publishing.īut publishing, then in the middle of a profound contraction, was not a welcoming industry. ![]()
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