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Smile for the Camera

Mar 20, 2026

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2 min read

Have you ever had a stranger take a picture of you in public then post it online?It happened to me when I worked at Amazon.I was work-walking between meetings, oblivious to how ridiculous work-walking looks to the outside world, when someone snapped a photo of me and posted it on Facebook. “Working walking? Is this…

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Dog Eat Diogenes is a short memoir about a tech worker who survived workplace mistreatment, but experienced a severe mental health crisis in the process. It’s supported by primary sources, secondary sources, and medical literature. This project is not an excuse for what I did, just an attempt to understand it so others can avoid the same path. It documents how chronic humiliation, stress, and low status can engender more serious mental health problems. The memoir also offers hope that these conditions (and their consequences) are survivable.

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Smile for the Camera