Question 2: What do you want people to keep in mind as they’re reading the book?Īnswer: …I’m hoping that other people in tech read it and they relate to it in some way, and that it articulates an experience that I believe to be common and not just my own. And in tech, you just feel incredibly useful, because you’ve worked incredibly hard and you’ve been sold a lot of stories about the importance of that work. I had always assumed I would feel useful in some sort of way. More than that, there’s a sense of momentum and a sense of freedom for even rank-and-file employees at a start-up. Question 1: What made Silicon Valley so seductive?Īnswer: …Here’s an industry where there’s a lot of opportunity, there’s a lot of money, there’s a lot of excitement. Two questions and answers from the interview that I wanted to share here are about: In that sense, I guess I fulfilled the author’s wish for readers/fellow people working in tech to read it and be able to relate to it in some way. What’s interesting is that I found a lot of points relatable even though I had barely started working for a startup then. I stumbled upon The Atlantic’s interview with Anna Wiener about her book Uncanny Valley which piqued my interest and led me to read it.
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