Thread by @antoniogm

As was announced earlier today, I'm joining @JoinLincoln as a fellow.

I know this might seem a bit random given the entirety of my knowledge and experience of DC comes from one season of 'House of Cards', but there's method this madness.
thepullrequest.com/p/joining-the-…

@JoinLincoln My goal with both Chaos Monkeys and Pull Request was attempting to bridge the chasm between tech and everything else. It's perhaps one of the necessary delusions of Silicon Valley to ignore the power centers of NYC and DC, but that’s an increasingly unsustainable delusion.

@JoinLincoln To riff on Trotsky: Techies may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in them. We’ve reached a point of almost universal disdain and resentment of technology; it’s perhaps the only bipartisan position left in our national politics.

@JoinLincoln The Left hates tech for having blown up the elite firmament of media that they dominated, and for minting ambitious billionaires who show considerable disregard for the status quo ante.

@JoinLincoln The Right hates tech for supposedly censoring free speech and conspiring with the Left to impose a certain vision of the world (though most numbers show conservative media dominating on certain social media platforms).

@JoinLincoln Only tech is providing a generative vision of a better future. Everyone else is pining for some idealized past.

It's time for tech to bring that vision to policymakers and end users, without the distortions of a hostile and misleading media.

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1455574603955326976

@JoinLincoln That bright vision is often warped however. Consider how much tech, even such promising and radical stuff like web3/crypto, isn’t about building technology that’s better than current alternatives, but rather technologies that haven’t been regulated yet.

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1455564237175234562

A truism of tech life is that most of the real problems in startups aren’t technology problems, they’re human problems.

Similarly, our society is plagued by a host of fundamentally human problems which we think will have technological solutions.

@JoinLincoln A truism of tech life is that the real problems in startups aren’t technology problems, they’re human problems.

Similarly, our society is plagued by a host of fundamentally human problems for which we don't have easy technological solutions and none will likely be forthcoming.

@JoinLincoln Politics is downstream of culture, but both are downstream of technology. It’s time we fixed the human side of the startup known as the United States of America.