by Ben Tarnoff
Moira Weigel is the author of the book Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Republic, and n+1, among other publications, and she is a cofounder of Logic magazine. She is a Junior Fellow at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Introduction: The Everyone Machine
1. The Founder
Failing Up, Down, and Sideways
Making the World a Better Place
2. The Technical Writer
Source of Truth
False Choices
The Conversations Are Louder
3. The Cook
A Really Good Feeling
Happy Bill Gates Day!
4. The Engineer
Into the Mothership
The Culture Is Changing
People on the Internet Are Jerks
Do the Right Thing
A Deep Bench
5. The Data Scientist
Money Machines
The Future
6. The Massage Therapist
Invisible Lines
Closing Time
7. The Storyteller
Balancing Acts
Inside Voices
Acknowledgments
Notes
Also by Ben Tarnoff
A Note About the Editors
Copyright
FSG Originals × Logic
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First edition, 2020
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