This story is actually as old as the gold in them thar' hills. Sub 'California (or 'The West' or 'America') for 'Silicon Valley'. Sub other industry and era-app

This story is actually as old as the gold in them thar' hills. Sub 'California (or 'The West' or 'America') for 'Silicon Valley'. Sub other industry and era-appropriate myths for 'The Social Network'. And we kind of need all the fantastical bullshit self-reinvention... because a tiny little bit of it is really new and great. The only way to find and fertilize that tiny genuine seed is to welcome all the other crap in large volumes. If you want Makers, you also have to humor lots of Fakers.