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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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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I can only hope that if this pessimism is true, the bench of talent the last wave built would apply their skills to worthy pursuits that don’t monetize well (say, for example, high quality UX for dealing with city government, voting, etc)
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