I recently revisited @paulg's essay "Cities and Ambition" to check on what it captured about SF in 2008, a city I knew at least in passing, thanks to an internship around that time:
http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1084535647786827776 …
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2) What's interesting is that the "voice" of SF then was recorded in the essay as "you should live better" — however the SF I remember was about freedom of creative expression: "you should live as / be whomever you want to be."pic.twitter.com/Ao9STqnC7h
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3) I believe it is credible to argue that the spirit of Silicon Valley in 2008 now fully inhabits that which previously had its home in San Francisco:pic.twitter.com/zCJHrCoXfJ
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It's true, the center of gravity shifted to the city about when Pinterest and Stripe moved. But SF-as-SV isn't quite the same as Peninsula-as-SV was. SV on the Peninsula was pragmatic, understated, and apolitical. None are words you'd use to describe SF.
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The shift of SV was one of those cases, common in history, where the invader is the one who ends up being conquered. SV was captured by SF culture by moving there, just as the Romans who decamped to Constantinople were eventually captured by Greek culture.
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