[oceanplexian]

Nail on the head.

We live in a bizarre world where everyone that founds a startup is often a credentialed, healthy Stanford grad re-implementing an unremarkable idea in network effects. Is it mobile or social? No? You might as well get on the next flight out of here.

To me, it seems utterly remarkable that our industry has grown up from kids running computers in their basement to a new breed of slick, Macbook-toting framework programmers that couldn't set up WiFi or SSH to save their life.

The things that I moved here for have been gamified and manipulated. In the process we've not only damaged our own industry, but destroyed San Francisco's cultural identity and pushed out the artists and misfits that make this such a special place.