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hit bookshelves Jan. 14 with high anticipation, a phenomenon Wiener describes as highly surreal and strange, especially after years of professional and personal uncertainty.
During her five-plus years working in Silicon Valley, she never actually intended to write such a critique; she wasn’t some disgruntled employee scribbling missives for a future tell-all. Instead, like many people, she took stock after the 2016 election. For those wondering how she was able to simultaneously offer a detailed account of her jobs’ absurdities and wax poetic, Weiner had a habit of emailing herself notes and went back through correspondence and performance reviews to jog her memory. “When I started writing the book I was feeling cynical and defeated, and it was important for me to be able to channel the enthusiasm I had at 25, 26 when I was just starting out,” she says of her journey down memory lane.
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