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Funny writing from Scott, as usual, but my main takeaway from this was that I'm glad to live in New York, and not the Bay Area. The events I go to here are att

Funny writing from Scott, as usual, but my main takeaway from this was that I'm glad to live in New York, and not the Bay Area. The events I go to here are attended by people from all different industries and walks of life. Putting too many tech-adjacent people in a room together has never made for great parties, in my experience.

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reducesuffering 4y ago
This is SF and Berkeley tech-adjacent circles, definitely not Bay Area as a whole.
- scotuswroteus 4y ago
  I agree, though I think you're missing most of downtown and west oakland, jack london square, plus the oakland hills, most of marin, almost all of the peninsula, albany and el cerrito, san jose, and maybe now even santa cruz. It's difficult to downplay that when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote. Like down to the overconfident assertions that one person already knew about the other person's super niche point about some obscure faux-spiritual tech concept. “Of course it can, that’s the whole point of Buddhism." I'd bet someone said that exact, absolutely terrible phrase within a ten block radius of Haight & Ashbury within the last 18 months, for sure. And they name drop some partnership they have with a new startup thing with someone on its board who once worked for the esalin institute as its like vp of sales and mindfulness. Still, I do think there's just as much diversity on the far periphery of the Bay as there is in say the outer borroughs of NYC. You don't get this in Vallejo.
  - reducesuffering 4y ago
    > when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote No, not even those places. This is a classic example of a social bubble. There's definitely a higher concentration in those places, but the majority of house parties, even in the Bay Area, are just a lot of drunk shenanigans, beer pong, weed, and not high brow intellectual talk. HN / ACX types are high-education, tech-adjacent, and likely raised outside the area. Their social networks are quite different from the rest of the 8m people here, especially the rest of Alameda county and San Jose, where most of the house parties happen. Even if all parties on the Peninsula were this type, they'd probably account for 2% of Bay Area house parties, those places have been so expensive for so long they're mostly amenable to workaholic and Netflix types. Source: am Bay Area raised and have a foot in both worlds.

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reducesuffering 4y ago

This is SF and Berkeley tech-adjacent circles, definitely not Bay Area as a whole.

scotuswroteus 4y ago
I agree, though I think you're missing most of downtown and west oakland, jack london square, plus the oakland hills, most of marin, almost all of the peninsula, albany and el cerrito, san jose, and maybe now even santa cruz. It's difficult to downplay that when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote. Like down to the overconfident assertions that one person already knew about the other person's super niche point about some obscure faux-spiritual tech concept. “Of course it can, that’s the whole point of Buddhism." I'd bet someone said that exact, absolutely terrible phrase within a ten block radius of Haight & Ashbury within the last 18 months, for sure. And they name drop some partnership they have with a new startup thing with someone on its board who once worked for the esalin institute as its like vp of sales and mindfulness. Still, I do think there's just as much diversity on the far periphery of the Bay as there is in say the outer borroughs of NYC. You don't get this in Vallejo.
- reducesuffering 4y ago
  > when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote No, not even those places. This is a classic example of a social bubble. There's definitely a higher concentration in those places, but the majority of house parties, even in the Bay Area, are just a lot of drunk shenanigans, beer pong, weed, and not high brow intellectual talk. HN / ACX types are high-education, tech-adjacent, and likely raised outside the area. Their social networks are quite different from the rest of the 8m people here, especially the rest of Alameda county and San Jose, where most of the house parties happen. Even if all parties on the Peninsula were this type, they'd probably account for 2% of Bay Area house parties, those places have been so expensive for so long they're mostly amenable to workaholic and Netflix types. Source: am Bay Area raised and have a foot in both worlds.