Every Bay Area House Party
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The events I go to here are attended by people from all different industries and walks of life. Putting too many tech-adjacent people in a room together has never made for great parties, in my experience.
It's difficult to downplay that when you go to almost any house party in those places, it's literally what this guy wrote. Like down to the overconfident assertions that one person already knew about the other person's super niche point about some obscure faux-spiritual tech concept. “Of course it can, that’s the whole point of Buddhism." I'd bet someone said that exact, absolutely terrible phrase within a ten block radius of Haight & Ashbury within the last 18 months, for sure. And they name drop some partnership they have with a new startup thing with someone on its board who once worked for the esalin institute as its like vp of sales and mindfulness.
Still, I do think there's just as much diversity on the far periphery of the Bay as there is in say the outer borroughs of NYC. You don't get this in Vallejo.
No, not even those places. This is a classic example of a social bubble. There's definitely a higher concentration in those places, but the majority of house parties, even in the Bay Area, are just a lot of drunk shenanigans, beer pong, weed, and not high brow intellectual talk. HN / ACX types are high-education, tech-adjacent, and likely raised outside the area. Their social networks are quite different from the rest of the 8m people here, especially the rest of Alameda county and San Jose, where most of the house parties happen. Even if all parties on the Peninsula were this type, they'd probably account for 2% of Bay Area house parties, those places have been so expensive for so long they're mostly amenable to workaholic and Netflix types.
Source: am Bay Area raised and have a foot in both worlds.
The Temple of Artemis was destroyed and rebuilt a few times. Herostratus burned the second temple in 356 BC and it was rebuilt in 323 BC. The list of ancient wonders dates from the time of the third temple.
> Yes, but the fun part is that out of 100 of these people, one will end up a billionaire, and another will end up setting the cultural agenda for the next decade
The billionaire bit I get. Plenty of billionaires have come out of the Bay Area and will continue to come out of there. But what does he mean by “setting the cultural agenda”? Who from the Bay Area can claim to have done this, and if nobody yet, why does the author think it will start happening?
Jerry Garcia
Dave Chappell (he says he built his comedic style here)
Ansel Adams
Francis Coppola
Robert Frost
Santana
Jack London
Tupac
Tom Hanks
Clint Eastwood
This is the list I found quickly googling: https://www.quora.com/Who-are-some-of-the-most-famous-celebr...
Maybe "pop culture agenda?" Or "Hollywood agenda"?
Sometimes when you're really close to something you overestimate how important it is.
Trust me, I'm not overestimating the importance of Jerry Garcia of Robert Frost. I've read only a handful of Frosts works, and am only a casual dead fan. I'm not close to them any more than any other casual consumer of their work. There are whole documentaries on this stuff, I'm just a guy.
Only kinda kidding.
Lame! Truly the Bay area is full of the seeming of life with no substance.
This condescending caricature will ring true for many who don’t live there and few who do — like most travelogues written for snark over insight.
Poetry.