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I've had the opposite take. What's not fun? East coast nyc/CT financial tech. It's run top down like the GOP. Gotta be on the same talking points. The important
by scrubs 3y ago
I've had the opposite take. What's not fun? East coast nyc/CT financial tech. It's run top down like the GOP. Gotta be on the same talking points. The important aspects of creativity, honest criticism are avoided and tainted as immature or hostile. Silicon valley likes those aspects I think better.
I've done a couple of startups in silicon Valley and they were fun!! And money making and full of learning. Plus silicon valley has great toys: cnc machines, lasers, photo plotters, pick-n-place machine lines etc.
I had the good luck to spend my senior year of high school in Marin County. One day the chemistry teacher comes in says: field trip to Stanford SLAC! We all got on the yellow bus and headed down the 101. 80s rock was blasting all the way down. When we pulled up to the parking lot and I walked off the bus to Robert Palmer's refrain: "you might as well face it you're addicted to love" was echoing loudly off the bus walls.
The slac itself was cool as hell. We walked by the computer lab on the way to the detectors which was running a large job of some kind .. computers and printers were sucking 1000s of pages of 132 column green bar paper out of boxes printing something cool about mother nature.
The particle detectors were two stories tall to detect sub atomic particles.
For me that's silicon valley at its best.
Alas large human organizations eventually take the fun out but maybe we're all one startup or love song away from rejuvenation.