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I think a lot of folks are misreading the author. The author isn't saying that people in Chicago are dumb. He's saying that talented people who move for ambi
by mathattack 10y ago
I think a lot of folks are misreading the author. The author isn't saying that people in Chicago are dumb. He's saying that talented people who move for ambition are moving primarily to New York and SF, and this is causing concentrations of intelligent and ambitious people to reside there.
- tptacek 10y agoIs he? Did I misread the section about how he was smarter than most people at Indiana University, and only now that he's arrived amongst his kind in NYC does he feel himself adequately matched by his peers? Wait, I forgot, he's an admirer of Thiel's. Maybe it was just an aside about the pointlessness and futility of college.
- idlewords 10y agoMaybe if you didn't live in Chicago, you could figure this out!
- tptacek 10y agoWhen software development is automated away and developers go the way of Milwaukee's tool and die engineers and everyone moves back to the Great Lakes region to get access to our vast reserves of fresh water, I'm really going to lord threads like these over them.
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