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After reading about 50 pages of #CarelessPeople I've decided I wouldn't want to spend five minutes in a room with any of these people, including the author. The upper classes are real different. #facebook
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Ein Job bei #meta ?
Nach dem Lesen von #carelesspeople von #sarahwynnwilliams vermute ich allerdings, daß niemand auf der Liste bei dem Seelenverkäufer #zuckerberg anheuern würde.
Wenn man dann die letzten Diebstähle von urheberrechtlich geschütztem Content und die widerrechtliche Ausspähung von Android-Benutzern dazu nimmt, gibt es kaum einen besseren Weg, sich persönlich zu diskreditieren.
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You know the old story, from Minnesota's F. Scott Fitzgerald—
"I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made… "
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For me, Joel Kaplan looks the absolute worst, and obviously, that's really saying something.
Looking forward to something similar on Musk.
Hopefully better written, this shouldn't have been the final edited version.
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It's here. #carelesspeople. The book the #zuckerberg gang doesn't want me to read 
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@ProjectFearlessness Former #Facebook executive #SarahWynnWilliams sums it up in the last page of her book, #CarelessPeople.
lol you don’t say
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Just finished reading Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams, which was just as shocking and gripping as all the reviews say. Unbelievable behavior from the leaders of one of the world's biggest tech companies. Definitely a recommended read for any Facebook user.
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I finished this book recently and I really enjoyed reading it. I wasn't that surprised by how Facebook was (is?) run like some seem to be. I found Sarah Wynn-Williams very relatable and an engaging storyteller with some hilarious and surreal (and disturbing) stories to tell. Definitely recommend. #carelesspeople #bookstodon
I finished reading/listening to "Careless People".
In the end, I gave it 3.5 stars rounded to 4. The author kept iterating about "change it from within" and "didn't think Facebook would do that" every time they did something that I could see them doing. I kept knocking stars off every time she said that.
Takes deep breath. Anyway. I hope Sarah Wynn-Williams' health has improved, and she's spending more time with her family. Speaking of family... lady, lady... I wanted to throw that laptop into a wall after you recounted THAT story.
Acabo de terminar #CarelessPeople, el libro de la abogada y ex-diplomática neozelandesa Sarah Wynn-Williams. Realmente no aporta demasiadas cosas si uno ha seguido la trayectoria de la empresa de #Zuckerberg y el andar del personaje. Sí que me sorprendió la intención de Zuck de presentarse a la presidencia de EEUU.
Resulta sin embargo interesante la visión de una insider en estrecha relación con los que tomaban las decisiones. Mi parte favorita, los tejemanejes para entrar en el mercado chino.
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@shoq I just finished reading #CarelessPeople - the inside Meta memoir. Highly recommend it.
There’s a passage that is indicative of why I will never think of them as honest brokers: after the 2016 election, they were so impressed with how Brad Parscale used their tools to manipulate FBers, that they proposed HIRING HIM.
i’ve been slowly finishing Careless People. i read the first 80-90% of it very quickly, but it’s been kind of a chore to finish.
i find the author, Sara Wynn-Williams, extremely unlikable and at times more than a little self-serving. it strains belief that she could still believe that facebook was a place to work as a force for moral good when she was ultimately hired in 2011. i understand that not everybody feels the same way about facebook, but i think it was pretty clear even then that it was not a “good” company.
i find too many of her anecdotes to be of the “this was bad and i was there and let me tell you how bad it was!” variety without much in the way of self-awareness or reflection.
in the table of contents, there is a chapter title “Myanmar,” which i imagined was going to deal with facebook’s enabling and promotion of the genocide that took place there. (see: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/) and it was, sort of, except a lot of it seemed to be focused on the workplace drama and annoyances around facebook’s lack of conscience and accountability, rather than focusing on the atrocities that occurred as a consequence.
after Sara Wynn-Williams buries the lede for a bit, she finally says:
“The unthinkable happens.”
despite the fact that she spent plenty of ink in the previous pages describing how very thinkable it was, but Facebook just didn’t believe it!
she continues:
“In late August, the military launches a campaign of atrocities against the Muslim population that the UN later describes as genocide and crimes against humanity.”
i mean…call it what it is. the whole section is weasel worded, as she dances around it by saying “the unthinkable” or “UN […] describes” without ever actually saying what she believes.
i have more critiques, but in general i think that this book reads more like a prosaic workplace memoir that just so happens to be about facebook than it does a speaking-truth-to-power bombshell whistleblower account.
Amnesty International · Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report
Listening to Sarah Wynn-Williams' "Careless People" on my flight into SFO. Passing over Facebook's HQ and I'm wishing I could open the window and personally spit down on Mark Zuckerberg from here.
From the air, Facebook's walled garden compound architecturally reflects the way the platform ingests and contains its prey, er, users, and defends itself from any outside influence.
If Wynn-Williams' description is even half-accurate, the headquarters also reflects the walled-in insularity of the leadership from the rest of the world and from the consequences of their company's actions.
The whole lot of them are monsters.
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because I accidentally stayed up late listening to Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir, #CarelessPeople, while #knitting, because I wanted to see whether it was hype or whether it had substance.
It's not brilliantly written - but it's authentic, poignant, and tells a story of a young, hard-working idealist whose perspectives on power, privilege and influence are deeply altered by her experience at Facebook.
I suspect tonight will be a late night too ;-)
Pan Macmillan Australia - · Careless People: A story of where I used to work - Pan Macmillan AustraliaShocking and darkly funny, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to the decisions that are shaping our world and the people who make them. Welcome to Facebook.Sarah Wynn-Williams, a young diplomat from New Zealand, pitched for her dream job. She saw Facebook's potential and knew it could change the world for the better. But,
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@kim_harding it’s a gripping and disturbing read. #CarelessPeople #books
If you haven't read "Careless People, A story of where I used to work" by Sarah Wynn-Williams yet, I recommend that you do. She gives a truly eye-opening (and jaw dropping) account of Facebook (now Meta) from the inside.
It is clear why Zuckerberg trying to block the publication of this book...
Just finished reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. What a terrifying exposé of a leadership team absolutely corrupted by power and greed.