Rebroadcast: In 'Work Pray Code,' author Carolyn Chen reflects on what happens when we worship work

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Many Silicon Valley companies want their software engineers to live for their jobs. And they offer them everything from meals to dry cleaning to spiritual coaches. But is the office really the place to find a life’s worth of fulfillment? Carolyn Chen and Lauren Padron join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:19.8	This is On Point.
0:20.9	I'm Megna Chakrabardi.
0:22.2	And this is Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta,
0:25.3	aka Facebook back in 2016 at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
0:30.0	You know, the most effective entrepreneurs
0:31.7	that who I've met care deeply about some mission
0:35.5	and some change that they're trying to create.
0:37.5	Right, and that's how I think about my connection
0:40.7	to all of us here is, when I was getting started,
0:44.0	I wanted, I cared deeply about giving everyone a voice
0:49.3	and giving people the tools to share everything
0:51.6	that they cared about and bringing a community
0:54.9	together and it started small in one university.
0:58.6	You keep going because you care,
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