Careless People
A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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Sarah Wynn-Williams
#1 New York Times Bestseller
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK. NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME, THE NEW YORKER, NPR, AP, THE ECONOMIST, SLATE, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, AND MORE!
“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to unspool a gripping narrative; she also delivers the goods." -Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
“When one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post
An explosive memoir charting one woman’s career at the heart of one of the most influential companies on the planet, Careless People gives you a front-row seat to Facebook, the decisions that have shaped world events in recent decades, and the people who made them.
From trips on private jets and encounters with world leaders to shocking accounts of misogyny and double standards behind the scenes, this searing memoir exposes both the personal and the political fallout when unfettered power and a rotten company culture take hold. In a gripping and often absurd narrative where a few people carelessly hold the world in their hands, this eye-opening memoir reveals what really goes on among the global elite.
Sarah Wynn-Williams's inside story puts you in the room during stumbling encounters with juntas through to the moment Mark Zuckerberg learned of Facebook’s role in Trump’s election and drew an unexpected conclusion. As she grapples with the reality of Facebook's influence on world events, she experiences the challenges and humiliations of working motherhood within a pressure cooker of a workplace, while Sheryl Sandberg urges her and others to “lean in” through it all.
Careless People is a deeply personal account of why and how things have gone so horribly wrong in the past decade—told in a sharp, candid, and utterly disarming voice. A profound, unflinching look at how technology and the people who control it increasingly shape our lives, Careless People reveals the truth about the leaders of Facebook: how the more power they grasp, the less responsible they become and the consequences this has for all of us.
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Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, The Associated Press, Scientific American, The Globe and Mail, and more!
"Sarah Wynn-Williams reads her account of her time as a senior executive at Facebook with a mixture of dark humour and astonishment at the working culture in which she finds herself." — The Guardian
"Devastating . . . funny . . . highly enjoyable . . . A Bridget Jones’s Diary-style tale of a young woman thrown into a series of improbable situations" - The New York Times
"Amazing: of all the books in all the world Mr. Free Speech Zuckerberg wants to ban, it’s the one about him'"- Marina Hyde, Guardian
"Jaw-dropping . . . A tell-all tome" - Financial Times
"A darkly hilarious, shocking tale that starts as farce and ends as tragedy. It combines withering portraits of Facebook’s insular, callous leadership with harrowing details of what Wynn-Williams calls the company’s “lethal carelessness” on the global stage.” –Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
“The book...reads like a spicy office memoir if your officemates travel by private jet and your boss asks for a rally of 1 million people” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“Careless People is really well-written, funny, horrifying, and quite compelling. I was on the edge of my seat, turning pages as fast as I could and ended up reading the book in less than a day. I cackled. I gasped. I laughed. I cringed. I cackled some more. I cringed some more.”-Roxane Gay
“This book is unbelievable and necessary. First off, it’s wonderfully written, propulsive, novelistic, and LOL at times. It details the morally bankrupt forces atop Facebook who are personally, knowingly responsible for a swath of crimes against yes, humanity…I so, so recommend this book. It’s a zippy read, and like I said, at times truly funny to be in the room where it happens with these morally bankrupt snowflakes…an amazing gift that this book was written.”-Maria Semple
Still, it is a cautionary tale for each and everyone of us to mind what we do with social media. Social media is not healthy, but how our data is used is really disturbing. And how they do not give a sh*t about what happens when their tool is missed and they won’t own up to it, makes me sick.
The narration was alright, the story could have been edited a bit better, as it felt like a bit of a loose collection of anecdotes and was a bit all over the place.
Cautionary Tale
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Must read!
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Wahnsinnig spannend und traurig
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And one might argue that the author views all this through a deeply personal (with the work she was doing for Facebook to have enough of a negative impact on her as an individual, her family and her professional life as to account for a more unfavorable lense) level as well as a profound ideological disagreement that would ostensibly color her narrative as selective. There is of course that. But also, not only does she make a point to include anecdotes of personal growth, individual kindness and selctive altruism about these powerful people she unmasks with this narrative, but also are the observable truths of our reality today entirely on track with what's described. An absolutely essential read towards understanding how today's social media landscape shaped as well as instrumentalized the societal collapse of liberal democracy we're watching these days and should all try to work to prevent and a real look at how the sausage got made, to possible help develop a playbook against the detrimental effects of today's digital culture and services. Very much recommended, can't wait to be terrified and saddened, as well as buyoed encouraged by more of this author.
Underpinning visible reality
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a real eye opener
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