They end up feeling like asides, without much impact.Īll in all, it left me waiting for something. It has two chapters that end with shocking quotes in the style of a newspaper profile, but it does no work to frame them or capture any context. The ideas about authenticity are grating. Occasionally it veers into being annoyingly simplistic, or self-aggrandizing. Unfortunately, I didn’t find much there: in observations, character studies, ideas, critiques, it’s thin, uninteresting, and commonplace. I suppose this is to detach it from its exact era, to make its observations more permanent or universal. It’s good to read something from someone who just wanted a better job.Īnd its main quirk is that all the proper nouns - names of companies and people - are missing. Its main value is in presenting a view of that situation in which she (Anna) is not a type-A go-getter who does everything right and works overtime to succeed: it isn’t Lean In or the other sorts of empowerment books. It’s a book about being a young woman in the tech industry.
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