I find it fascinating how permissive openness to new ideas and challenging convention in people like Hsieh is likely both responsible for their success and also

I find it fascinating how permissive openness to new ideas and challenging convention in people like Hsieh is likely both responsible for their success and also their downfall. Even though Hsieh had moved on from Silicon Valley after the first dot-com boom, it's a characteristic I'd apply to the Bay Area in general. Makes me wonder if the line between the folks attempting to disrupt the status quo with their startup and the folks living in tents and experimenting with drug cocktails in the tenderloin isn't in fact razor thin. And conversely, I wonder if by "cleaning up" places like SF, you might also kill the permissive attitudes that make the Bay Area the place to go when you want to birth a new idea.