You know what tech needs?
Tech insiders themselves telling their own stories their own way to an audience of their own people, unmediated by hostile outsiders in it as just another attention-grabbing, book-deal-getting beat.
Such as what @ObserverOrg is doing.https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1271840465625612288 …
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That’s not without value but also a pretty good setup for groupthink—especially dangerous for domain-smart, wealthy people on the ascendence.
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The views coming out of the private convos I have with some of these people are far more varied than what appears in most mainstream coverage of the industry. And somehow that chasm never gets bridged.
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Coverage has indeed become fairly one-dimensional (though reporting is always useful as data point). Yet, so much is constantly missed by the industry. It’s... inevitable. Narrow slice of humanity and rapid change in complex system. “Talk among ourselves” is necessarily limited.
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We’re in the middle of a pandemic that has almost the entire world switch to technologically-mediated economic and social infrastructure and yet half the interview with one of its most important figures is asking him about his calendar habits and productivity how-tos? Come on.
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The man even wrote that we don’t build essay! Let’s actually talk? I’m just trying to imagine being that interested in his choice of calendar app in June of 2020.
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There’s definitely a thread here about entrepreneurs who found success building software-only businesses with software margins then championing software-eating-the-world not being able to process or respond to the ramifications of the IRL world part.
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That said, I enjoyed this interview!
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Thrilled to announce a passion project I've been working on for a while. Here's "The Observer Effect" with our very first interview w/ the one and only Marc Andreessen.