Silicon Valley's Soft Landing

Re:Silicon Valley's Soft Landing by codesushi42 on Friday January 08, 2016 @11:04PM (#10870050)

As much as I'd like it to work, there's really no replacement for working with colleagues face-to-face. And that's not likely to change.

But maybe the hubs can. Perhaps SV can pass the torch to Seattle?

ducks

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Re:Silicon Valley's Soft Landing by DarthMader on Saturday January 09, 2016 @12:17AM (#10870188)

Personally think a decent chunk of SV is not worth emulating. Hoping to see a new city blaze their own trail w/o the drawbacks of SV (gentrification, 0 work-life balance, ratio of men/women, same people talking about the same topics (e.g. "oh you work in tech, too?! How unique")

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Re:Silicon Valley's Soft Landing by phamilton on Saturday January 09, 2016 @02:22AM (#10870429)

I'm always intrigued when I hear about 0 work-life balance in SV. Maybe I've gotten lucky, but I've worked at a small startup (first 10 hires), a medium sized startup (150 people), and a big tech company (10k people) and at all of them I was able to be home by 6pm every day, even with an hour commute, to spend evenings with my family.

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Re:Silicon Valley's Soft Landing by hueving on Saturday January 09, 2016 @04:50AM (#10870682)

The work life balance thing seems to be a made up justification to not be in the valley by people who live outside of it.

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