![]() ![]() ![]() She first works for an ebook startup that is essentially constructing a digital library without the feeling of being in one. Wiener begins the memoir in New York City, working in a publishing job that does not pay well but which enables her to say that she’s doing a job with some meaning attached to it. ![]() These observations do double duty: They demonstrate her incredible ability to write nonfiction, and they further highlight why she felt so out of place in Silicon Valley in the first place. She notes, as if in passing, the smallest of minutiae of the food she sees at a party she comes to define life in Silicon Valley as everyone optimizing their bodies for longer lives, which could then be spent productively. Two aspects of Anna Wiener’s memoir, “Uncanny Valley” immediately make themselves apparent: its understated observations and attention to detail. ![]()
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