Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013)

Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013) by nkurz on Thursday January 19, 2017 @12:57PM (#13437792)

I post this now because the author (Balaji Srinivasan) has recently been named as a contender for heading the FDA: https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/12/fda-trump-oneil-srinivas...

Note that "exit" here is not synonymous with "secession", but instead refers to Albert Hirschman's contrast of "exit" and "voice" as two complementary approaches that individuals can use to influence the society around them: http://peterlevine.ws/?p=11887.

In this context, the option of "voice" includes the approach of reforming institutions from within, while "exit" leaves them broken and bypasses them with new alternatives. Given Srinivasan's embrace of "exit", this makes him an intriguing candidate for overhauling a massive federal bureaucracy.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013) by RangerScience on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:59PM (#13438981)

Amazing read, thank you! I have no idea what this next government will look like for the US...

Interestingly, the kind of "exit" he's talking about sounds an awful lot like Timothy Leary's "Turn on, tune in, drop out": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013) by thenewregiment1 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:40PM (#13439267)

Amazing read. Such thoughtful Writing.

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Re:Silicon Valley’s Ultimate Exit (2013) by dlemire on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:09PM (#13440966)

I find it interesting that he would even consider the job.

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