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When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley with Carolyn Chen

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Is There a Pandemic in Silicon Valley?

I've been really, actually, really encouraged by the response that I've had from folks in Silicon Valley and people in the mindfulness movement. They're really interested in my book because it's kind of like we want to go into this with our eyes wide open. So I feel like this is a possibility. And we need to remove it. Sounds very difficult to achieve something like that when sort of we have this algorithmic determinism that is built into the foundation of the system. ButYeah, I mean, all of the options seem pretty challenging when you're so deep into the material conditions and the cultural conditions that have resulted in where we're at now.

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