A Book You Should Read

My friend Suzanne strongly suggested I read a book called Careless People, written by a Kiwi named Sarah Wynn-Williams. Since Suzanne is an avid reader of the highest quality I always listen to her and downloaded the book on audible on my way to Maine.

The book is a non-fiction account of Sarah’s time working at Facebook starting in about 2014. She was a policy nerd who saw Facebook’s potential in the political world. She lobbied hard to get the job in the hopes of setting up good governance for Facebook. What unfolds in the story of her years being close to the top brass at Facebook is more than disturbing to say the least.

For her sake I hope she has excellent security. If anything happens to her the book will serve as a blueprint of who did it.

I highly recommend that you read this important work as it helped me understand the mindset behind much of the oligarchy, that we really can’t afford to ignore.

It will be interesting to see if this blog gets blocked on Facebook as all my blogs get linked there. There is nothing Facebook can do about my actual blog since I pay for my site and it has nothing to do with them, but after reading this book I have little trust in them.