The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age
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 publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she...
The prescient, page-turning account of a journey in Silicon Valley: a defining memoir of our digital age
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 publishing for the promise of the new digital economy. She moved from New York to San Francisco, where she landed at a big-data startup in the heart of the Silicon Valley bubble: a world of surreal extravagance, dubious success, and fresh-faced entrepreneurs hell-bent on domination, glory, and, of course, progress.
Anna arrived during a massive cultural shift, as the tech industry rapidly transformed into a locus of wealth and power rivaling Wall Street. But amid the company ski vacations and in-office speakeasies, boyish camaraderie and ride-or-die corporate fealty, a new Silicon Valley began to emerge: one in far over its head, one that enriched itself at the expense of the idyllic future it claimed to be building.
Part coming-of-age-story, part portrait of an already bygone era, Anna Wiener’s memoir, Uncanny Valley, is a rare first-person glimpse into high-flying, reckless startup culture at a time of unchecked ambition, unregulated surveillance, wild fortune, and accelerating political power. With wit, candor, and heart, Anna deftly charts the tech industry’s shift from self-appointed world savior to democracy-endangering liability, alongside a personal narrative of aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment.
作者简介
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Anna Wiener is a contributing writer to The New Yorker online, where she writes about Silicon Valley, startup culture, and technology. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York, The New Republic, and n+1, as well as in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2017. She lives in San Francisco. Uncanny Valley is her first book.
The culture, insofar as our tiny company had one, revolved around the founders. While they sometimes bickered, I never saw anyone leave the conference room angry. (查看原文)
Embodiment of all the overthinking that social sciences/humanities people do Reading it in 2020, before my career unfolds in front of me; can’t stop wondering where I will be in 5 years, will I find fulfillment in work related to artificial intelligence or...
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Silicon Valley is the Mecca for computer professionals, like Tsinghua University for a Chinese student. It is there, distant and remote, but also glittering and tangible. We hear news from it, and we know that some famous compaines and great guys are around...
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0 有用 酸奶 2021-01-29 17:32:09
虎头蛇尾的感觉，总体上个人体验不错，我很能共情这个女生的处境：硅谷、互联网公司、男性主导、自我怀疑等等…算是临近工作的一个warm up阅读体验
0 有用 李戴斯 2021-12-06 16:33:33
文科生在矽谷軟件公司工作的日常不適 - 各種正向的修辭背後是對勞工權益的剝削和對性別和種族平等議題袖手旁觀 == 這種虛偽感真的是蠻難live with // 唉希望自己一直記得這種不適感，並且盡所能做些小小改變。
2 有用 迷路哭 2020-10-12 05:32:46
看点在视角和文笔，让我想到初入it startup的那几年，自己觉得新奇但是别人习以为常的事情，原来也同样有人觉得奇妙荒诞，并且记载了下来。
0 有用 龟龟 2021-02-05 01:25:07
圈外人试图进入圈内的不适应，和圈内人的自嗨。
1 有用 pola2mo 2021-01-28 14:52:20
作者出版行业出身，机缘巧合下进入科技行业以fresh eyes去观察硅谷的种种。文字很有意思，犀利的吐槽让人忍俊不禁。科技行业的繁荣之下种种已经被人习以为常的事物&观点，被她一一质疑。对科技的狂热表面上是新势力新希望新生活，其实也不过是另一种形式旧生活罢了。对个体和群体的剥削，阶级间的不平等，社会机器里的洗脑，生产效率追求中对人性的蔑视。这一切在这种新生行业的无序中，甚至变得更加不可理喻。
0 有用 苏诺 2023-08-06 07:12:53 美国
应该是四星，多一星的个人情感分，因为书中描述的内容和我的生活过于贴近，过于真实一次又一次地引起不适，但还是想读下去。作者文笔非常好；大多数人写排比句是因为没有确实内容可写，但这位作者是那种真的有内容写的人，所以她即使是写一长段排比句也能够不让我觉得烦躁。断断续续花了很久才读完，刚开始看这本书的时候我还在tech工作，所以不能做到上了一天屎一样的班，下了班还要再到书里看到自己的生活是多么荒唐，所以读... 应该是四星，多一星的个人情感分，因为书中描述的内容和我的生活过于贴近，过于真实一次又一次地引起不适，但还是想读下去。作者文笔非常好；大多数人写排比句是因为没有确实内容可写，但这位作者是那种真的有内容写的人，所以她即使是写一长段排比句也能够不让我觉得烦躁。断断续续花了很久才读完，刚开始看这本书的时候我还在tech工作，所以不能做到上了一天屎一样的班，下了班还要再到书里看到自己的生活是多么荒唐，所以读一两章就停顿很久，再过一段时间才又有能量继续读下去，终于读完这本书的时候我也没在工作了。所有在tech工作还尚存一些理想主义的人，也许都能感同身受吧。 (展开)
0 有用 暴力喵 2023-02-01 22:22:21 美国
这几个月漫长的六小时通勤，终于把这本书最后给听完了，中途几次一个人在车里笑翻。没有什么特别高的期待，是一个刚从田野回来的我能共鸣的dry吐槽，笔触非常可爱（感觉narrator全情投入加了大分），作者的茫然、惊讶、和她自己都吐槽的东海岸中产小孩的同情心和阶级意识，被写得妙趣横生，但里面的诸多事例不但很硅谷典型，有的根本就是真实案例，于是在自我吐槽下面是科技糖衣里头的獠牙
0 有用 苏生 2022-03-31 09:03:14
文笔真好
0 有用 没毛的猫 2022-02-08 05:25:32
作者文笔确实不错，不过也太平淡了吧……
0 有用 李戴斯 2021-12-06 16:33:33
文科生在矽谷軟件公司工作的日常不適 - 各種正向的修辭背後是對勞工權益的剝削和對性別和種族平等議題袖手旁觀 == 這種虛偽感真的是蠻難live with // 唉希望自己一直記得這種不適感，並且盡所能做些小小改變。