One pleasure of cafes near NYU: you overhear detailed script discussions by serious aspiring screenwriters. Enjoying the minutiae
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What you overhear in various places is a highly underrated component of their character. More even than buildings, I'd say.
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Very strongly agree. It seems close to a high-order bit on people's beliefs about what they can do.
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I wonder how critical this effect is in the obvious-but-hard-to-explain agglomeration effects of cities. I see lots of explanations that cite e.g., the Bay Area's tech dominance as something related to labour mobility. Maybe "what you hear in the cafes" is just as important?