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Title: Careless People Author: Sarah Wynn-Williams Sarah Wynn-Williams's Careless People enters the ring as a blistering, tell-all expose of tech-giant arrogance, and for the most part, it lands a heavy blow. The author originally fought hard to join Facebook as an idealistic young international lawyer eager to shape social media's global impact. What follows is a slow-motion descent into corporate disillusionment as the "frog in a pot" reality sets in, kept bubbling by golden handcuffs, stock equity, and basic self-preservation (like needing health insurance--which, honestly, fair). The most satisfying part of the book is watching Wynn-Williams dismantle the reputations of people who have spent years carefully curating their public images. She pulls back the curtain on the rank hypocrisy of "leaning in," exposing how high-minded feminism and performative empowerment routinely dissolved into workplace toxicity, explosive rants, and a culture that turned a bl...