
Uncanny Valley is her chronicle of that period, written with the kind of piquant ambivalence that triggers a salivary response, followed by spitting cries of Didion’s umpteenth coming, in so many modern readers. For more than four years, between 20, she toiled and lounged in customer support roles, first at a data analytics company and then at GitHub. Using the world-renowned KonMari Method and cutting-edge research, Joy at Work will help you overcome the challenges of workplace mess and enjoy the productivity, success, and happiness that come with a tidy desk and mind.The victim of the quasi-praise is Anna Wiener, who moved to San Francisco at age 25 for a job in tech and lived to write about it. Her new book focuses on organizing work life-how to manage our inboxes, meetings, and tasks to bring joy back into the workplace. Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo and Scott Sonensheinīestselling author and Netflix star Marie Kondo is back at it with another book to help us all get our lives together.

It's about creating our own edge by confronting the factors that seem like shortcomings and turning them into assets that make others take notice.ĥ. Instead, she says achieving success hinges on how well we shape others' perceptions-of our strengths, certainly, but also of our flaws. In Edge, Huang argues that success is rarely just about the quality of our ideas, credentials and skills, or our effort.

She says the rest of us can create our own successes from the challenges and biases we think hold us back, turning them to work in our favor. Laura Huang, a preeminent Harvard Business School professor, believes that success is about gaining an edge: that elusive quality that gives you an upper hand and attracts attention and support.


Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang No Filter draws on unprecedented exclusive access-from the founders of Instagram, as well as employees, executives, and competitors hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio Anna Wintour of Vogue and a plethora of influencers-to show how Instagram has fundamentally changed the way we communicate, shop, eat, and travel.Ĥ. Award-winning Bloomberg technology reporter, Sarah Frier, reveals an inside look at how Instagram defied the odds to become one of the most culturally defining apps of the decade.
