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It's good to keep a positive attitude, even if it's a self-imposed positive attitude that doesn't match how you really feel. They say that forcing yourself to smile actually raises your endorphins, right?

That said, it's truly a tragedy that silicon valley was so unprepared for the market downturn we're going through. "Economy is shit so we laid everyone off" is something that most bay area engineers, I think, believed only happened at old, last-gen, dinosaur companies. Think Exxon and Bell Telephone. Certainly the software rocket ship is going to the moon, right? Software is eating the world, right? I truly feel for the people who smoothly transitioned from university where they studied their passion (software) into their dream job at FAANGAMANGA, casually throw their entire paycheck at the greedy landlords and NIMBYs in Palo Alto or San Mateo, and now find out that, while reaping record profits and promising that the party will go on forever, software companies were quietly speedrunning replacing their foundations with sand. And now, I doubt silicon valley has any real value, other than proximity to Stanford and Berkeley.