Memoir spotlight
Careless People
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Seven years inside the world's largest social network, told by the diplomat who was in the room.
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A former New Zealand diplomat joins a company that promises to connect the world, and watches from the inside as it learns what that actually costs.
Publisher's blurb
Synopsis
Wynn-Williams recounts her years in global policy at a company scaling faster than its own judgement: the private jets, the country visits, the decisions made in transit that reshaped elections and newsrooms. It is a workplace memoir first and an indictment second.
The editorial feature
Very readable and very specific, which is what makes it damaging. The book is strongest when it stays with the small procedural moments where somebody could have said no and did not.
Book details
- Genre
- Memoir
- Released
- 11 March 2025
- Publisher
- Flatiron Books
- Extent
- 400 pages
- Featured on
- 11 March 2025
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