1/ Tom Wolfe bio of Noyce brightboys.org/PDF/Wolfe_Noyc is worth re-reading alongside Tad Friend bio of newyorker.com/magazine/2015/
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2/ Both hammer home point that SV owes more to Midwestern tinkering tradition than to more storied Bay Area counterculture influence
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3/ I'd even argue that counterculture was consequence, not cause. Why?
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. Actually, I don't think so. India has some peculiar cultural baggage that limits tinkering to jugaad-level crap.
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Not all who leave do interesting things :) Leaving = necessary but not sufficient for a region to be a major source.
