This was really evident the last time I drove up into San Francisco and noticed how bland all of the tech billboards were. Nothing interesting or novel…just a lot of enterprise SaaS products.
It had taken the colonel seventy-five years—the seventy-five years of his life, minute by minute—to reach this moment. He felt pure, explicit, invincible at the moment when he replied: “Cool shit.”
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Money, through the arrival of the masses?, has really sucked the Internet and IT dry.
Back then it was "build cool shit".
Now it is "extract cool dollars".
This was really evident the last time I drove up into San Francisco and noticed how bland all of the tech billboards were. Nothing interesting or novel…just a lot of enterprise SaaS products.
Looked a lot different 15 years ago.
15 years ago? In 2008, the year of the Great Recession? Are you certain?..
Yes. That's when I moved out to California. The tech industry looked and felt a lot different then than it does now. Recession or not.
It had taken the colonel seventy-five years—the seventy-five years of his life, minute by minute—to reach this moment. He felt pure, explicit, invincible at the moment when he replied: “Cool shit.”
(I'll show myself out)