Completely agree. I worked in the silicon valley scene for about 5 years and left last year because after a while I saw little value in the majority of what wa

Completely agree. I worked in the silicon valley scene for about 5 years and left last year because after a while I saw little value in the majority of what was being created in the ecosystem. Note the word majority - there are some groups doing very interesting important things but they are few and far between in my opinion. I think the culprit is the incentive system of SV - the rewards seemingly go to a number of trivial things and Im not going to pretend to be smart enough to know completely why. Whats increasingly strange to me is when America and the world have such glaring problems, you really don't see many in SV directing their efforts towards these areas. I'm not expecting for entrepreneurs to single handedly 'fix' healthcare, etc. - but I'm surprised there aren't more chipping away at these things directly or indirectly In my opinion, much of society is struggling on multiple basic fronts and naturally thats where the really interesting and great opportunities will be. Meanwhile we have hoardes of extremely bright people in SV trying to cook up the new flavor of the month photo app.