> The valley’s valorization of “disruption” — a euphemism for destruction — allows bad people to keep winning. I've spent most of my life following this religi

> The valley’s valorization of “disruption” — a euphemism for destruction — allows bad people to keep winning. I've spent most of my life following this religion, but over the last couple of years I've started to think that we maybe can't, as a species, afford to entertain this "disruption" model. We need less disruption, and more resilience. You can make the argument that disruptive startups play "chaos monkey," hardening the economy through adversarial inoculation, but I'm not convinced we're building anything useful—only exploiting local optima with structures that will collapse like California's aquifers as they undermine the economic sustainability of their own milieu.