⚡️ New Event: Work Pray Code ft. Carolyn Chen
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People are not ‘selling their souls’ at work. Rather, work is where they find their souls.
Today’s book review is a bit longer than usual, but I think it’s worth it. If you read this newsletter, chances are, you’ve felt the weirdness of tech work/mission/purpose in some way — I know I have. And when I asked for reviewers in Discord, I got an overwhelming response: a “sociological analysis of tech culture as religion” seems to be something that everyone has been waiting for. Read the review, and come hang out with us at the Q&A! Our guest for this Thursday, May 5 is sociologist Carolyn Chen, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at Berkeley. Her latest book is Work Pray Code: When…
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