Careless People
Wow. I’m not a huge reader and I don’t think I’ve ever read a book so fast. 400 pages in 2 days. It was gripping. And terrifying. And surprising - but maybe not so surprising?
The author, Sarah Wynn-Williams worked at Facebook in public policy from 2011 to 2018 and recounts how “very careless” (or should I just say - INSANE!) the top management became, which then led Facebok to be a huge contributing factor to several serious geopolitical crises around the world.
After reading this book, I question if this “careless behavior” is inevitable once you reach an extreme level of power and wealth?
Some quotes I like, but are not nearly enough to sum up the content of the book.
“When you have so many other people doing things for you professionally and personally, you stop taking responsibility for any of it.”
“They apparently didn’t care. These were sins of omission. It wasn’t the things they did; it was the things they didn’t do.”
