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tech industry appears in 47 chunks across 35 episodes, from 2023-10-09 to 2026-05-18.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 (2025-10-13), with 4 observations on this topic.
Semantically it travels with Christopher Alexander, silicon valley, and late stage, while by chunk count it sits between social media and Apple; its yearly rank moved from #40 in 2023 to #46 in 2026.
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Range2023-10-09 to 2026-05-18Mean1.3 per episodePeak4 on 2025-10-13
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Showing 47 observations sorted from latest to earliest.
There's a whole class of people who joined the tech industry not to use the internet to change the world for the better but because they would have gone into finance in a previous life.
The optimizers, the peop...
The tech industry is in the boring hill-climbing phase.
Hill-climbing takes grit, dependability, and efficiency.
Mass-produced.
Hill-finding takes taste, craft, and cl...
...m of different dystopias (with a few more subtle ones thrown in).
People in the tech industry tend to be more optimistic about tech.
Partially because we build it so we feel more control over it.
But that means that tech sometimes is inspired ...
...alley originally, Silicon Valley has matured and become more traditional as the tech industry has matured, and Berkeley keeps alive more of that energy.
...l context it's in and becomes a particularly concentrated version of it.
As the tech industry has gotten more mature and more boring (more about banal first-order optimization), the PM role has also gotten more boring too.
It used to be more a...
The tech industry has a default ethos of "go fast and assume we're correct and everyone else is dummies".
That leads to a lot of moves that look clever but are actuall...
...ect fidelity and ~infinite speed for ~free.
A lot of things that make us in the tech industry feel like geniuses actually arise mostly from "the world of bits is way easier"