For some reason I was expecting it to be fluff but it's actually a really poignant, self-aware breakdown about the cons of SF and the quest to pursue happiness.
This stands out:
Even though Silicon Valley has the highest concentration of brilliant people I've found anywhere in the world, it also has the highest concentration of people who think they're brilliant. The former are often awesome, keenly self-aware, and even self-deprecating (let's call that 15% of the population), but the latter are often smug, self-satisfied, arrogant, and intolerable (let's call that 60% of the population).
Which is why it's funny that people think trolls are an online phenomenon. They are simply a reflection of a real-world in which most people are (subjectively perhaps) those you neither want to talk nor listen to.
The difference is that online, the filter of proximity and permission that works so beautifully to delineate our offline relationships, is void.
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For some reason I was expecting it to be fluff but it's actually a really poignant, self-aware breakdown about the cons of SF and the quest to pursue happiness.
This stands out:
Which is why it's funny that people think trolls are an online phenomenon. They are simply a reflection of a real-world in which most people are (subjectively perhaps) those you neither want to talk nor listen to.
The difference is that online, the filter of proximity and permission that works so beautifully to delineate our offline relationships, is void.