Thread by @zaoyang

1/ People in the bay area are confused by #miamitechweek. The miami tech experiment was suppose to have died down by now but they don't understand that the bay areas is unbundling from physical location including:

* Expertise
* Co-workers
* Friends
* Interest network

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2/ Cities are transitioning by decoupling from physical locations and having many of the benefits on the cloud including

* Unbundling of expertise to location
* Unbundling of workers to location
* Unbundling of friend network to location
* Unbundling of interest to location

3/ Industry towns are based on a multi sided marketplace. Expertise, workers, friends, and common interest for new explorations. This is mostly mapped to a physical social graph that someone can tap into.

4/ the benefits of going to the cloud from a personal computer is because the computation capacity or an individual far outstrips a computer. Facebook, google just an average day takes an ungodly amount of computation.

5/ The average person has outgrown the capacity of a given physical social graph to serve their personal needs. The average person in their work group deals with a workgroup which is 5 people plus their extended network and within their physical network like the neighbors.

6/ This is part of the reason why people aren't so neighborly, it's because their physical neighbors don't necessarily correspond to their work, friend, and interests.

7/ Historically, industry towns are based on an apprenticeship model. Where tacit knowledge is passed down through work projects and the right work companies. Now, the problem is that websites and the cloud is replacing the expertise through a series of cohort based courses.

8/ This includes reforge, demand curve, and other type of next generation cohort courses, and things like On deck. These are creating tacit knowledge, friendship, common interest in the cloud independent of physical location.

9/ Software knowledge isn’t just programming but tacit knowledge at the right companies. Due to the bay area costs, more and more people are outsourcing and workers have gotten used to a remote work culture and the remote workers are getting better.

10/ Friend networks used to be a combination of reciprocity and exchange of interest. This changed with focused chats. Telegram and discord allowed for interest based groups to be able to be bundled and for friend network to be decoupled from physical locations.

11/ Twitter now provides a mapping of ones interest in a spontaneous manner and all these tools have contributed to making industry towns less bundled.

12/ The bay area is being unbundled in a world that needs physical and digital flexibility. . California is great at digital virtual worlds that mirror the physical world but don’t require changes in the physical world. But regulation prevented flying cars and innovation.

13/ It's no accident that one of the first real implementations of boring tunnel is in ft laudadale, physical flexibility is necessary to solve some of the world's biggest problems: transportation, housing, food, climate change.

14/ With the new unbundling, what is the new bundle? People asked me after my thread:

https://twitter.com/zaoyang/status/1376932017212887040?s=20

What are the attributes to consider when moving to a new city.

My diligence process included:
* Time zone
* Housing policies
* Regional resources 
* Package delivery
* Healthcare and wellness infrastructure
* Career community
* Remote work effects in your industry
* Local work, food, and entertainment culture
* Education

16/ Time zone depending on where you want to invest or who you want to collaborate with is crucial. Being in new zealand is okay, but a pain for certain developer collaborations. East coast hits the sweet spot of cooperating with asia, europe, latin america.

17/ Everyone has internet services and escaping to a digital metaverse, but physical flexibility is important. Does the area build housing or is their a generational vote gap to build housing like Cali enabled by prop 13. Generational political conflict is already here.

18/ Regional resources matter. People travel from texas to florida to georgia. It's about a nexus of talent that one can draw from. Due to college, many people are used to traveling and are nomadic. Remote can be augmented by regional talent.

19/ Package delivery matters in terms of time and resources. These are all things to consider for people that are considering really remote places like puerto rico, hawaii, or even places in south america. Lower cost, less convenience.

20/ Healthcare and wellness infrastructure matters. Organic foods, supplements, hospitals, and services matter for fertility, longevity, health. Many people said Barry's mattered when moving to Miami.

21/ Most people think career as a function of the existing institutions but it's more a function of the people. If institutions were all that mattered. Silicon valley would be in Boston not in the bay area. Network with the locals.

22/ More specifically many cities now have telegram and slack groups with local communities to help you onboard into tech.

23/ There are more things to consider, but all around. The industry town is unbundling not entirely to the cloud, but with a combination of resourcing local and in the cloud. Choose your city wisely. As always, I'm long Miami.