I was looking at some photographs of Silicon Valley people from 10-15 years ago, and it's amazing how happy everyone seems. Because no one in the outside world cared what we were doing.pic.twitter.com/IXLsITjwqL
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No, I mean how tech went wrong. How startup culture, the focus and the logic of tech startup success created serious social problems that we're suffering from today. I could expand on my feelings there, but I'd rather find out what you think.
The main problem that comes to mind is polarization. The internet lets each person find what they want to believe. But that's not a byproduct of startup culture.
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I think there's something in assembling smart, super-young, culturally similar people with no background in anything else, and encouraging them to focus on growth above all. As S. Levy notes, the pathologies of FB today are the result of decisions made in early, startup days.
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That's always been the case though. Similar people did similar things. If you became good at this things, you were often singularly focus on those interests. That's always happened. The difference is the current-day culture. It is polarized. Freedom leads to that.
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