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> I glanced at the bookshelves around me — a lot of Isaac Asimov and faddish tech-sponsored print magazines covering “the future of governance and society”. Pe
by playnine 2y ago
> I glanced at the bookshelves around me — a lot of Isaac Asimov and faddish tech-sponsored print magazines covering “the future of governance and society”.
Perhaps because I am in tech I don’t understand how this is a bad “I have to leave this party now” sort of thing.
> The city is the indisputable tech capital of the country.
Do people think that? “Silicon Valley” is on the other side on the bay and I usually think of it as an amorphous blob that covers a few city borders. I’d have probably said Mountain View if pressed.
- SoftTalker 2y agoI don’t live in a tech center and at parties I try to avoid mentioning that I work in tech because it’s an instant conversation killer. And I get it. Tech conversations at parties are utterly boring. Even at work they are boring.
- playnine 2y agoDo only people who work in tech read Isaac Asimov? What a great pity.
- XenophileJKO 2y agoThat is one of the differences living in silicon valley. It was so refreshing to have conversations on robotics, biology, AI, etc. while watching the kids play at a birthday party. It is generally different when you pass some threshold with enough technical people in a party. It is one of my favorite things about living here.