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    1. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 10 Mar 2019
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      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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    2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 10 Mar 2019
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      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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    3. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 10 Mar 2019
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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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      Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 10 Mar 2019
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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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        2. #TestAndTrace Smith  🐇‏Verified account @Noahpinion 10 Mar 2019
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          I don't get the corner solutions bit! But I also think that people in the Valley take their tech cluster for granted, while people in Columbus are salivating at the chance for a local economic revival...

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        2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 10 Mar 2019
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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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        1. Kevin Riggle‏ @kevinriggle 11 Mar 2019
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          I observe that a lot of the naive optimists seem to have turned into naive pessimists without really reexamining their underlying principles at all

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