Gray Tribe

One other thing that worries me is how a lot of recent SV tech rhetoric is much more nationalist than before. Ensuring "we" win the global competition. People being tribal is inevitable and can sometimes be channeled toward good, but it's not the sort of thing you want from a global technological vanguard community. I much prefer the old SV that idealistically identified itself with the progress of all of humanity.

One reason I really appreciate crypto is that I think it still has that spirit.

Partly driven by the appeal of the Trump era. Silicon Valley realized there’s a larger untapped market being underserved that benefits from nationalist rhetoric and attitudes

you probably don’t think about liquidity enough // it is what it is  // build value, not valuation

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I’m very pro American dynamism and manufacturing fwiw

They are adapting to the reality of a multipolar superpower world. You either act like China or you lose to China.