If we must live in a surveillance state, might as well be under the attentive eye of Anna Weiner, whose memoir of a half a decade in Silicon Valley startup culture Uncanny Valley is equal parts enchanting and subversive. The Brooklyn native graduated into a recession and found a job at a New York literary agency that paid mostly in cultural capital. Seduced by tech’s lucre and ostensible utopianism, Wiener moved West, where life proved eerily comfortable for a hard-driving Millennial. Her account of living inside the Bay Area bubble reads like an episode of HBO’s Silicon Valley filtered through Renata Adler; Weiner is a trenchant cultural cartographer, mapping out a foggy, season-less world whose ruling class is fueled by illusions of grandeur, nootropics, and empty scripts: “People were saying nothing, and saying it all the time.” The book’s author does the very opposite, disrupting the disruptors at their own game. – Lauren Mechling https://twittertshirt.com/tin/blackwidow...
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