The tech industry is in the boring hill-climbing phase.
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...
Topic: tech industry
46 chunks · 34 episodes
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- tech industry appears in 46 chunks across 34 episodes, from 2023-10-09 to 2026-03-30.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 (2025-10-13), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with late stage, Christopher Alexander, and silicon valley, while by chunk count it sits between social media and Apple; its yearly rank moved from #49 in 2023 to #43 in 2026.
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A hyperstition is a belief that becomes true if people believe it's true.
...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 ...
My co-founder and I live in Berkeley, so the center of gravity of our new company will be in Berkeley.
...alley originally, Silicon Valley has matured and become more traditional as the tech industry has matured, and Berkeley keeps alive more of that energy.
The PM role is tofu.
...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".
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...
The world of atoms and the world of bits have fundamentally different characteristics.
...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"