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Another advantage of a "lab" is interaction with other bright people in the field. It's a key benefit of YC; Jobs designed the pixar building to enhance this;
by 6ren 14y ago
Another advantage of a "lab" is interaction with other bright people in the field. It's a key benefit of YC; Jobs designed the pixar building to enhance this; many great software ideas came out of Bell Labs and Xerox PARC; and I've also experienced it myself at my old compsci dept.
- dredmorbius 14y agoThe Internet has, if not replace, then extended that metaphor considerably. Or at least it does when people with a common interest can reach out and find one another. One of my huge frustrations with so-called "social media" is that they frequently make just this sort of interaction very difficult. People who empathize similarly can reach out and like one another. However, people who can actually GSD need to wade through a ton of noise in search of signal. Even old Usenet did better (charters and cancelbots FTW). This is one of the reasons why topically-organized sites (Reddit, HN, etc.) do far better for communications in my book.