SILICON VALLEY BORG or PROTO FACISTS "Everyone dresses the same, drive the same cars, listen to the same podcasts, claim to read the same books...You get an extraordinary herd behavior, everyone thinks they’re being super insightful, but in fact everybody’s kind of following the same trend.”N. Clegg
Prefect example
Which means they all think the same. Since they are all thinking the same means that none of them are truly thinking for themselves. Ah! Their thoughts are the thoughts of the Lemmings who follow each other over a precipice.
I'm hung up on "claim to read the same books"
Sounds like all the Wall Street, Masters of the Universe aholes from the 80s.
Tech lemmings?
It’s because when there was money to be made, all the east coast bros moved west and ruined Silicon Valley’s culture.
The Twilight Zone!Lots of money, zero dignity, empathy, or humanity.
This is no surprise at all. There’s a reason “tech bro” is basically a meme Halloween costume at this point.
They are a bunch of weirdos to me.
..."everyone thinks they’re being super insightful, but in fact everybody’s kind of following the same trend." This is something I noticed in an NYT interview with Peter Thiel by Ross Douthat. Thiel came across as superficially thoughtful, attempting to be insightful, but was only obviously so.
Spot on… left Silicon Valley 10 years ago. Harder for some of us that were born and raised there.
The rent here is literally my debugging nightmare.
I have reposted this to friends and family. The phrase that resonated was that "when you have privilege, equality feels like oppression"
Because you don’t want to admit that if you’re enjoying privilege it’s at someone else’s expense, no matter how much you donate to charity.
Dead on
He is right
Sounds boring AF to me.