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Seduced by Silicon Valley Bubble

Seduced by Silicon Valley

Chau Luong P erhaps the most repeated phrase in Uncanny Valley, Anna Wiener’s memoir of life as a tech-industry worker, is “I did not know.” When the book opens, Wiener’s world feels like one with limited horizons. It’s 2013, and she’s a 20-something college …
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December 22, 2019
I ate chicken and waffles at Roscoe’s, the LA chain celebrities love. I’d go back in a heartbeat. Barack Obama

I ate chicken and waffles at Roscoe’s, the LA chain celebrities love. I’d go back in a heartbeat.

Chicken and waffles have always been a culinary blind spot for me. As an Asian American from the Pacific Northwest, my foods growing up were steaming bowls of pho, take-out boxes piled with sticky-sweet chicken teriyaki, and occasionally, Claim Jumper's chee…
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December 22, 2019