![]() Why did it feel so taboo, I asked, to approach work the way most people did, as a trade of my time and labor for money? Why did we have to pretend it was all so fun? While perhaps not unique to tech-it may even have been endemic to a generation-the expectation was overbearing. In this respect, it was not unlike book publishing: talking about doing work for money felt like screaming the safe word. Was that just buying into the industry's own narratives about itself? I tried to summarize the frantic, self-important work culture in Silicon Valley, how everyone was optimizing their bodies for longer lives, which would then be spent productively how it was frowned upon to acknowledge that a tech job was a transaction rather than a noble mission or a seat on a rocket ship. ![]() ![]() “Was I trying too hard to make this mean something? I asked Leah. ![]()
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