Careless People

This book is . . . something. It’s juicy, salacious, and quite frankly, alarming. My jaw dropped multiple times while listening to it. I will never look at Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, or many of the other people who work at Facebook the same way. It details Wynn-Williams’ desperate mission to get a job at Facebook, her career there, and how she wishes she had never joined the company. It will make you think about the Meta platforms, and if they’re something you want to be part of. My hands are a little tied on that front, but wow. It is a must-listen. I do need to caveat that if you are squeamish about medical stuff (I am), you may want to fast forward through the shark attack and birth scenes. There was one scene in particular that made me dizzy. I had to sit down in the middle of my walk. This book offers a profoundly personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong over the past ten years, told very honestly. A deep, unflinching look at the role that social media has assumed in our lives, and the scary truth about the leaders of Facebook they had. The more power they got, the more careless they became