Uncanny valley : a memoir / Anna Wiener.

"The story of Anna Wiener's time spent working in Silicon Valley as the tech industry went through monumental changes"-- "In her mid-twenties, 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 pub...

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Main Author: Wiener, Anna, 1987- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Edition:First Edition.
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Physical Description:279 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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