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Charles Petersen

@cpetersen.bsky.social
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Editor @nplusonemag; published in @nybooks etc. Writing a book about meritocracy and Silicon Valley.

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Charles Petersen @cpetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Also, the stakes of organizing, and the madhouse of driving to work at a 10,000 person factory with a car that keeps breaking down, while management is looking for ways to fire you. It's a very different picture of Silicon Valley. I believe the TV rights are still available.
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Charles Petersen @cpetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I've read a lot about working conditions in Silicon Valley manufacturing plants, and there are many more interviews to be done. But I've never met anyone with a memory like David's — he conveys the feel of actual day-to-day work in the Valley like no one else. The smells!
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Charles Petersen @cpetersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A few years ago I was reading a lost 1988 dissertation on the immigrant women who actually made the chips in Silicon Valley, when I saw one organizer, David Bacon, described by a manager as "a one-man son-of-a-bitch trouble maker." I knew then that I had to interview this guy.🧵
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