My version of this thread:
In DC, the culture was forged by watching solvable problems prove impossible to solve.
In SV, the culture was forged by watching (seemingly) impossible problems get (seemingly) solved.
Both places overlearned their experience.
In DC, the culture was forged by watching solvable problems prove impossible to solve.
In SV, the culture was forged by watching (seemingly) impossible problems get (seemingly) solved.
Both places overlearned their experience.
https://twitter.com/roybahat/status/1470460060383924227
I think this schema still largely holds, but it was truer 5 years ago on both sides.
In DC, Trump, and in a different way, Sanders, convinced people the boundaries weren't what they thought.
In SV, the success stories of the Aughts are the problems of the 2020s.
In DC, Trump, and in a different way, Sanders, convinced people the boundaries weren't what they thought.
In SV, the success stories of the Aughts are the problems of the 2020s.
This is, as best I can tell, one of the cultural drivers of the Web3 mania in SV.
It feels to many in SV like an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, to go back to solving impossible problems rather than being the impossible-to-solve problem.
It feels to many in SV like an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, to go back to solving impossible problems rather than being the impossible-to-solve problem.
And to be clear, I'm not really picking a side here. I've learned from both.
DC underrates how many political problems could be solved, or at least eased, by better technology.
SV overrates how many problems of power, culture and conflict are actually software problems.
DC underrates how many political problems could be solved, or at least eased, by better technology.
SV overrates how many problems of power, culture and conflict are actually software problems.
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