Uncanny Valley
A Memoir
by Anna Wiener
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“@AmyAlex63 @GuardianUS Agreed but it is a great book and very sly | @zoebchance Books: I've been rereading Robert Caro, starting with the Power Broker, 1 chapter a day. Salvador Dali's 50 secrets of craftsmanship is bonkers, Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley is eyeopening. Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes similarly great. Movies: Crazy, Stupid Love has held up. | I have yet to read a better book than Uncanny Valley since I read Uncanny Valley last summer & I think it'll be awhile until I do. EVERYONE BUY IT | Maybe Adult,hood is about reaching this moment no matter your field. Regardless, @annawiener’s book is the best I’ve read in a while. | My best 3 books of 2022 Life changing: Atmamun Joyful: Uncanny Valley Mind blowing: Empire of Pain Yours | fav books i read this year”
Source →“@AmyAlex63 @GuardianUS Agreed but it is a great book and very sly | @zoebchance Books: I've been rereading Robert Caro, starting with the Power Broker, 1 chapter a day. Salvador Dali's 50 secrets of craftsmanship is bonkers, Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley is eyeopening. Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes similarly great. Movies: Crazy, Stupid Love has held up. | I have yet to read a better book than Uncanny Valley since I read Uncanny Valley last summer & I think it'll be awhile until I do. EVERYONE BUY IT | Maybe Adult,hood is about reaching this moment no matter your field. Regardless, @annawiener’s book is the best I’ve read in a while. | My best 3 books of 2022 Life changing: Atmamun Joyful: Uncanny Valley Mind blowing: Empire of Pain Yours | fav books i read this year”
Source →“@AmyAlex63 @GuardianUS Agreed but it is a great book and very sly | @zoebchance Books: I've been rereading Robert Caro, starting with the Power Broker, 1 chapter a day. Salvador Dali's 50 secrets of craftsmanship is bonkers, Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley is eyeopening. Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes similarly great. Movies: Crazy, Stupid Love has held up. | I have yet to read a better book than Uncanny Valley since I read Uncanny Valley last summer & I think it'll be awhile until I do. EVERYONE BUY IT | Maybe Adult,hood is about reaching this moment no matter your field. Regardless, @annawiener’s book is the best I’ve read in a while. | My best 3 books of 2022 Life changing: Atmamun Joyful: Uncanny Valley Mind blowing: Empire of Pain Yours | fav books i read this year”
Source →“@AmyAlex63 @GuardianUS Agreed but it is a great book and very sly | @zoebchance Books: I've been rereading Robert Caro, starting with the Power Broker, 1 chapter a day. Salvador Dali's 50 secrets of craftsmanship is bonkers, Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley is eyeopening. Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes similarly great. Movies: Crazy, Stupid Love has held up. | I have yet to read a better book than Uncanny Valley since I read Uncanny Valley last summer & I think it'll be awhile until I do. EVERYONE BUY IT | Maybe Adult,hood is about reaching this moment no matter your field. Regardless, @annawiener’s book is the best I’ve read in a while. | My best 3 books of 2022 Life changing: Atmamun Joyful: Uncanny Valley Mind blowing: Empire of Pain Yours | fav books i read this year”
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Silicon Valley, Technology, and Nonfiction.
The prescient, pageturning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital ageIn her midtwenties, 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 Yor...
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“@AmyAlex63 @GuardianUS Agreed but it is a great book and very sly | @zoebchance Books: I've been rereading Robert Caro, starting with the Power Broker, 1 chapter a day. Salvador Dali's 50 secrets of craftsmanship is bonkers, Anna Wiener's Uncanny Valley is eyeopening. Tufte's Seeing with Fresh Eyes similarly great. Movies: Crazy, Stupid Love has held up. | I have yet to read a better book than Uncanny Valley since I read Uncanny Valley last summer & I think it'll be awhile until I do. EVERYONE BUY IT | Maybe Adult,hood is about reaching this moment no matter your field. Regardless, @annawiener’s book is the best I’ve read in a while. | My best 3 books of 2022 Life changing: Atmamun Joyful: Uncanny Valley Mind blowing: Empire of Pain Yours | fav books i read this year”
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