Elena Rossini ⁂Mar 13, 2025

Thanks to the magic of the Streisand effect, I just heard about #CarelessPeople - a book by former Meta employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

Apparently the company is FREAKING OUT and seeking legal ways to stop its promotion. I can see why. This article about it in the Times made my jaw drop: https://web.archive.org/web/20250310221013/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/books/review/careless-people-sarah-wynn-williams.html

I will definitely order it at my local bookshop.

🔗: https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism/22213433

Edit: included non-paywalled link (thanks @[email protected])

#books

Book Review: ‘Careless People,’ by Sarah Wynn-Williams

“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.

The New York Times
Show threadElena Rossini ⁂Mar 17, 2025

An update: last night I started reading #CarelessPeople and I cannot emphasize enough HOW GOOD it is. A real page-turner.

No wonder #Meta executives are trying to shut down its promotional tour. They come across as shallow, greedy and irresponsible.

The author wrote in the prelude that working there was "like watching a bunch of fourteen-year-olds who’ve been given superpowers and an ungodly amount of money, as they jet around the world to figure out what power has bought and brought them." 🔥

Show threadWesDym

@_elena People are apparently under a delusion that wealth, fame, and power imbue their holders with any augmenting attributes they didn't have before. That's very obviously untrue, if you stop to think about it. If I give some idiot $1M, they're not a better person for it; they're just an idiot with $1M. Same with a jerk or anyone else.

Some of these folks we hear about are authentically successful on their own merits. But a lot are just faking it well.

Mar 17, 2025 at 1:17pmWeb