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It’s not as if Wiener hides those company’s identities, exactly. It’s a decision that was perhaps birthed in the NDAs Wiener surely had to sign at the three technology companies where she worked.

Instead, she describes them: Amazon becomes “an online superstore that had gotten its start in the nineties by selling books on the World Wide Web.” Facebook is “a social network everyone said they hated but no one could stop logging in to.” Brands, names of apps, titles of movies-Wiener tends to avoid proper nouns. One of the first things you notice about Anna Wiener’s Silicon Valley memoir Uncanny Valley is the author’s elegant elision. The Guy Who Filmed the Proud Boys on Jan. 6 Also Made Some Iconic Rap Videos Why the Internet Is So Obsessed With Lea Michele Replacing Beanie Feldstein in Funny Girl Herschel Walker’s Battle With His MAGA-Influencer Son, Explained A Chinese Immigrant’s Fearless Comedy Set Went Viral.