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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
fast-paced
Egads, if you have a Facebook account and read this book it will likely make you want to delete all your data and your account as fast as possible! I do not have an account, but if I did that would have been my reaction. Sarah Wynn-Williams tells a fast-paced story that begins with her being attacked by a shark, which might surprise you (as it did me) for how her parents dealt with her experience.
What you learn about Wynn-Williams is that she is fearless, resilient, and willing to dive in and tackle that which has to be tackled. Indeed, she not only returned to the waters in which she was attacked by the shark, she went back into the water. This gives you an idea of what is to come in terms of her responses to each of the events that form the story she shares about Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the people she regularly worked with at Facebook.
The upshot is a grueling story that, with each chapter, becomes more absurd and more disgusting. You will learn about rules and breaking them, laws and how the Facebook folks felt about them, other countries and their concerns and what the heads of states are willing to do (or not do). Ultimately you will form your own impression. Suffice it to say that Facebook took pains to prevent Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her book, but not before she was able to be interviewed on NPR (an audio interview), in The Guardian and several other print entities.
By the end of the book I was fully disgusted, and not just with the mucky-mucks at Facebook. They are indicative of the power and fear that drives the vast majority of the United States government. Both entities are run by power hungry men with no understanding of or care for the impact their approaches and policies have on the rest of humanity. And no, this is not an overstatement.
What you learn about Wynn-Williams is that she is fearless, resilient, and willing to dive in and tackle that which has to be tackled. Indeed, she not only returned to the waters in which she was attacked by the shark, she went back into the water. This gives you an idea of what is to come in terms of her responses to each of the events that form the story she shares about Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and the people she regularly worked with at Facebook.
The upshot is a grueling story that, with each chapter, becomes more absurd and more disgusting. You will learn about rules and breaking them, laws and how the Facebook folks felt about them, other countries and their concerns and what the heads of states are willing to do (or not do). Ultimately you will form your own impression. Suffice it to say that Facebook took pains to prevent Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her book, but not before she was able to be interviewed on NPR (an audio interview), in The Guardian and several other print entities.
By the end of the book I was fully disgusted, and not just with the mucky-mucks at Facebook. They are indicative of the power and fear that drives the vast majority of the United States government. Both entities are run by power hungry men with no understanding of or care for the impact their approaches and policies have on the rest of humanity. And no, this is not an overstatement.