Hey everybody, it's Nick from the Bridgecast.

We got a special episode today, Anna Weiner,

who wrote the new book Uncanny Valley,

joins us on the interview show.

The book is out today, Anna spent years working

in Silicon Valley at a number of companies

that she does not name in the book.

They're pretty easy to guess.

I definitely asked her about them in the interview.

And the book is a memoir or that time.

And a memoir of something we are always talking about.

The moment in time when startups were new and exciting

and could change the world and the shift in tone

to the reality of what all of this technology

and all this connection is really doing to us in our culture.

I really enjoyed talking to Anna.

The book really made me think when I read it.

It is extraordinarily well written

and really challenges a lot of what I take to be

kind of foundational, conventional wisdom about technology

companies, how they work and the value they put in the world.

This was a great conversation.

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