I honestly understand why there’s a rift between tech people and everyone else in SF. Tech wishes it could turn this place into some clean, orderly, perfect techno-utopia but SF is fundamentally not that.

SF is a complicated, confused, crazy city that will always be trying to figure out what it is and what it wants to be (just like the people in it), but that’s the whole point. Tech looks at SF as if they’re missionaries coming to preach to a remote tribe and “show them the way”. They assume they know the city wants things one way because its the way they want things.

yep

balaji's ethnically cleansed out of SF thing however misquoted that he was is a good example

backend eng; full-stack curious

writer, icon, retired rave queen

Yeah Balaji is the perfect example of everything wrong with tech