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Feels like I’ve sort of drifted away from Silicon Valley culturally over the last couple of years. 🤔 I still enjoy the actual tech part of Tech, but no longer closely track the scene around it. I often find I’m out of the loop on a lot of stuff people expect me to know.
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Feels like the energy I’m sensitive to and tend to seek out has moved elsewhere. Not sure where. Tech scene has a very different energy now than 2009-15 when I was most actively in it (I passed through the core of it but was never quite part of it... kinda like a neutrino tour)
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Most of my gigs these days are more sustainability than Tech I‘d say. But that doesn’t have a scene around it or a geographic soul. It’s all over the place. Everybody does not know everybody. And it’s bigger/more varied since it’s broader technically and more labor intensive.
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Some of the interesting energy from Tech has in fact moved to sustainability but only a fraction, and very diffused over a vaster microeconomic base.
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I’m fine with it. I’m mostly a nomad and have never spent more than 5-6 years in a scene. I suspect I’m typical. More people pass through tech than stay. You have to strike it rich to stay, and I didn’t enter any of the lotteries.
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How do you feel about that shift?
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The Covid-triggered exodus is a whole new wrinkle on this thing. Wonder if the scene will ever build back up to pre-2015 energy.
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