Re:Tech workers think Silicon Valley and startups are losing...
by potatolicious on Saturday July 09, 2016 @07:45PM
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Ehh, I don't think it's exaggerated at all - having lived both in SF and NYC.
There exists things that aren't tech in SF, but the scale of which is much lower than other major cities like NYC. More importantly though, even in non-tech scenes, tech is always there. It's the guy at the party that seems to find you no matter how much you move around the room. I found it suffocating - no matter where you go you can never fully disengage from the industry.
The measure of a tech monoculture isn't (IMO) the existence of other things, it's whether or not tech tags along with all of these other things.
There exists things that aren't tech in SF, but the scale of which is much lower than other major cities like NYC. More importantly though, even in non-tech scenes, tech is always there. It's the guy at the party that seems to find you no matter how much you move around the room. I found it suffocating - no matter where you go you can never fully disengage from the industry.
The measure of a tech monoculture isn't (IMO) the existence of other things, it's whether or not tech tags along with all of these other things.