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The problem of these articles is that they lean too far into kicking SF while it’s down, since it felt so invincible before. Same kind of journalism happened i
by RC_ITR 3y ago
The problem of these articles is that they lean too far into kicking SF while it’s down, since it felt so invincible before.
Same kind of journalism happened in the early 2000s.
The problem is that they don’t recognize cyclicality.
Arguably the most important startup in decades is headquartered there, the CEO is stating remote work is a mistake, and the CTO is regularly calling SF the best place to start an AI startup.
SF will still face problems but a lot of this fiscal hand wringing will likely appear foolish in hindsight.
- onos 3y agoMight be cyclical, or maybe it’s Detroit v2. We will see, hoping the former. https://twitter.com/sfstandard/status/1662145831351336977?s=46&t=b46CypkQBwroZYDseuaaIw https://twitter.com/sfstandard/status/1662145831351336977?s=...
- inferiorhuman 3y ago[flagged]
- onos 3y agoThe old navy is not closing, then?
- RC_ITR 3y agoHaving an old navy in a tourist corridor that does a very bad job of serving local residents is your metric of whether a place is a healthy city or not? I’m sure all those AI specialists will flee now that they can’t get fast fashion jorts on market street. It’s amazing to me that on a forum of supposed hackers, legacy businesses failing is some sort of harbinger of doom. E-commerce won in SF. This forum should be the place celebrating that and asking what’s next for those spaces. Detroit didn’t die because it was a bad place for stores. It didn’t even die. It’s still a huge wealthy area. It declined because people didn’t ask what’s next.
- onos 3y agoI’ll take that as a yes.
- kaycebasques 3y agoBack when I used to go to Stable Cafe a lot I often looked at the Pioneer Building and pondered that it was a strange, interesting building. Only learned in the last few weeks that it's OpenAI's HQ!
- reducesuffering 3y agoUsed to be
- hackernewds 3y agoI'm guessing you mean OpenAI. Ironically they did their best work while working remotely not in an SF HQ. Also it behooves me to consider that a CEO/CTO in a competitive environment would be biased to dole out malignant advice, as evidenced against their own practice? It's kinda like how you wouldn't want to use the toothpaste that "9 out of 10 dentists recommend". Or billionaires often mention their secret to success is merely "reading a lot" or "waking up at 4am" or doing dishes [0] [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/10/why-jeff-bezos-and-bill-gates-both-do-this-mundane-chore.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/10/why-jeff-bezos-and-bill-gate...