I noticed that an increasing number of my engineer friends don't seem very excited about working in the tech industry anymore. I asked one why this was true, expecting him to give a politics-related answer. Instead, he said "Tech isn't creating the Next Big Thing anymore."
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Two comments — - Pockets of skepticism about likelihood that today’s nascent technologies turn out to be as impactful as the last generation has been a consistent theme in the ~10 years I’ve spent in the Bay Area. - It seems much less common in tech scenes outside the Bay Area.
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Why do you think the Bay Area is more pessimistic? Higher expectations to start with? Displaced annoyance at high rents?
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I don’t know that it’s more pessimistic overall. Indeed, I wonder if it’s the prevalence of naive optimism here that creates the pockets of broad skepticism as a kind of response. (To state obvious: no corner solutions in this space are optimal!)
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Rents are a good hypothesis, too! I suspect that rapid increases do encourage some kind of more zero-sum, establishment-oriented, conservative mindset...
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I agree with Patrick, It is less common outside SV, there is a new wave of super apps in Asia and Latam, exploring new tech frontiers, near to the moments of consumption, that makes tech development cool again!...Marketing,e-commerce, fintech,last mile logistics all in one place!
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