A well-curated Twitter feed seems to be #1 — being able to surround myself with Google researchers, founders of billion dollar companies, & world-class brilliance has been extraordinarily invaluable. Can’t do this IRL or on even other sites (FB is for friends & family).
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In which environment did you have your MOST profound "wow, there are *so* many smart people here!" moment?
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Resetting my (and my company’s) baseline of achievement to people I follow vs. people near me is a quick hack at emulating the pressure of SV without actually being there.
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3: first time in Silicon Valley at 18, in my first job at a startup in NYC, and then at MIT.
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At my first cryptography conference. Now I work at Google I get it a lot.
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Does it still count as school (university) if you didn't really realise it until you experienced what the working world had to offer a few years later?
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Scratch that, it was obviously EAG in London last year :)
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