My experience has been that, in SF startup culture, respect for the humanities is pretty strongly expressed. But not in the "I have a degree in writing" sense b

My experience has been that, in SF startup culture, respect for the humanities is pretty strongly expressed. But not in the "I have a degree in writing" sense but the overwhelming belief that one must be a sort of Renaissance Man and be an artist or creator of some sort. It makes sense, actually. For many people in the culture, they're fairly comfortable (founders are few, employees many) and so they start looking up Maslow's pyramid.