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Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams review a former disciple unfriends Facebook
2025-04-22 12:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Shortly after her waters broke, Sarah Wynn-Williams was lying in hospital with her feet in stirrups, typing a work memo on her laptop between contractions. Facebooks director of global public policy needed to send talking points from her recent trip to oversee the tech giants bid to launch operations in Myanmar to her boss Sheryl Sandberg. Then she would give birth to her first child.Wynn-Williamss husband, a journalist called Tom, was livid but, as men tend to be in labour rooms, impotent. The doctor gently closed her laptop. Please let me push send, whimpered Sarah. You should be pushing, retorted the doctor with improbable timing. But not send.This incident typifies how, in this 400-page memoir of her seven years at Facebook from 2011 as it mutated from niche social network to global power able to swing elections, target body-shamed teens with beauty products and monetise millions of humans hitherto private data Wynn-Williams had become part of what reads like a diab...
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