Bay area tech idealism used to annoy me because of arrogant and self-aggrandizing rhetoric. Tech has since become the enemy; idealism and creativity have all but vanished. The risk appetite has evaporated too because it turns out it was never there, it was just naïveté.
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ironically esp among those with financial stability there seems to be very little risk tolerance sometimes feels like people are just trying to scheme up poorly researched get rich quick schemes or to establish themselves as thoughtleaders
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tech in the bay is populated with risk averse, conventionally successful recent grads of elite unis, for whom it feels like the chips they gamble with are “years of your early career” which are nonfungible, difficult to ‘optimize’, and high opportunity cost
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in a year and a half, more than a dozen people here have recommended that I read the defining decade by meg jay
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