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The Silicon Valley ethos, hyper distilled: "If you can't measure it, it doesn't matter." In its hyper distilled form this is The McNamara Fallacy. A little of it is goo...
There's this classic Quora thread: "What will Silicon Valley do once it runs out of Doug Engelbart's ideas?" Alan Kay himself chimes in to basically say that Silicon Valley has no novel ideas outside of Engleba...
...of your circle. An example of this dynamic is, "The bear is sticky" in the show Silicon Valley.
... have known how impossible it was I would have never tried." This is one reason Silicon Valley can find new peaks: a steady stream of bright eyed / bushy tailed young founders who don't know what they don't know. The overall ecosystem can use t...
...one multiple. This is the hypergrowth playbook. It's one we take for granted in silicon valley, unquestioned orthodoxy. When you're doing something deeply differentiated you have a bit more time to think an additional ply or two.
...mething new comes along that breaks the mental models, it simply won't fit! The Silicon Valley tech scene is heavily optimized for this late stage vertical Saas world.
... of our new company will be in Berkeley. I kind of love that. We're adjacent to Silicon Valley, but outside it. Whereas Silicon Valley emphasizes tech and hyper growth, Berkeley emphasizes holistic approaches, organic growth; understanding of t...
...dynamic unique to crypto, by the way. I think you could reasonably frame all of Silicon Valley as a "computer" (sifting through a large number of bad ideas to find the small number of great ones) and a casino (massive paydays for the early inve...
...ize, with the highest possible fidelity, a vision sketched by the chef. Most of Silicon Valley relies on fractal layers of entrepreneurial people--which can create emergent great outcomes but also be a mess. Of course, this doesn't have to be a...