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How do you talk about Silicon Valley without mentioning Stanford and Berkeley, without mentioning the defense industry which preceded it? The writer doesn't eve
by CalChris 8y ago
How do you talk about Silicon Valley without mentioning Stanford and Berkeley, without mentioning the defense industry which preceded it? The writer doesn't even get the Gertrude Stein quote right. She was writing about her childhood home, the house she had grown up in, that it had been torn down. [1] Traffic. We have traffic. Who doesn't?
What drivel.
[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/there_is_no_there_there
- caprese 8y ago> How do you talk about Silicon Valley without mentioning Stanford and Berkeley Because it is a relatable hajj to tech Mecca that many others will experience for the first time, in the same context that this writer experienced it.
- CalChris 8y agoSV has been around for 50+ years. I think what the writer is seeing now is destination rather than destiny. I think the writer's first impressions now are really overblown as any sort of analysis.
- caprese 8y agoI find it relatable and find your being bothered by it to be unrelatable It comes across like you are married to the area and its history in a way that the heavily transient population derives zero benefits in caring about Whatever ship you are defending sailed long ago and also is not what the article is about If I want a primer to tell people what they’ll experience, this is an article to encapsulate all that If I want a museum, this isnt the article for it Simple