Putting California Buddhism to Work in Silicon Valley

Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley....

Putting California Buddhism to Work in Silicon Valley Fred Turner describes “Work Pray Code” as a fine-grained map of the traffic between religion and profit-seeking in Silicon Valley. By Fred Turner March 8, 2022 Science & Technology Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley by Carolyn Chen . Princeton University Press , 2022. 272 pages. Buy on Bookshop.org Did you know LARB is a reader-supported nonprofit? LARB publishes daily without a paywall as part of our mission to make rigorous, incisive, and engaging writing on every aspect of literature, culture, and the arts freel

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