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Silicon Valley

The place as an idea: its appetite for disruption, its moonshots, and what it has given up on.

What people on korrents have said about Silicon Valley, newest first — 13 positions from 13 people.

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Who Everyone ADAnil Dash 1 DADario Amodei 1 DDDmitri Dolgov 1 JDJamie Dimon 1 JHJensen Huang 1 LFLex Fridman 1 MGMatthew Green 1 MHMax Hodak 1 NLNathan Lambert 1 PCPatrick Collison 1 PGPaul Graham 1 SBSamo Burja 1 TGTed Gioia 1
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  1. TG

    Ted Gioia quoted

    Our readingMost of the world's free time has been converted into revenue for technology companies, and that conversion is where their fortunes come from.

    Their wordsMost of the world’s free time has now been monetized by tech companies. In fact, the monetization of leisure time is how Silicon Valley execs make their billions.

    ↗How Our Leisure Time Got Monetizedhonest-broker.com 1st of 2 in this piece

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  2. 4 days earlier
  3. AD

    Anil Dash quoted

    Our readingShaming people out of using a harmful technology does not work, because the companies selling it have already priced the stigma into their plans.

    Their wordsIn short, the venture capitalists and CEOs of Silicon Valley have priced the costs of shame into their business plans.

    ↗Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AIanildash.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  4. 1 day earlier
  5. MH

    Max Hodak quoted

    Our readingMoonshots succeed more often than Silicon Valley's use of the word admits -- we actually got to the moon.

    Their wordsIt's like, you know, when we went to the moon, we did it. And so, historically, the success rate of moonshots is higher than I think people give them credit for.

    ↗From Restoring Sight to Reimagining the Brain, with Max Hodakyoutube.com 1st of 18 in this recording

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  6. 2 weeks earlier
  7. DD

    Dmitri Dolgov quoted

    Our reading"Move fast and break things" is the wrong mantra when you are dealing with atoms; the job is to move fast and ship safely.

    Their wordsin Silicon Valley, there's a common mantra to move fast and break things. However, when you're dealing with atoms instead of bits, breaking things is not really okay. So, the thing you have to do is to move fast and ship safely.

    ↗Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% Of The Workyoutube.com 2nd of 22 in this recording

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  8. 3 days earlier
  9. PC

    Patrick Collison quoted

    Our readingStartup opportunities are not fleeting; Silicon Valley has reliably had a surfeit of them for decades.

    Their wordsYou know, in hindsight, I think that um that was a a poor intuition. Uh it's been pretty robustly and reliably the case over many decades in Silicon Valley has a surfeit of opportunities.

    ↗Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?youtube.com 5th of 20 in this recording

    startups

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  10. 6 months earlier
  11. DA

    Dario Amodei quoted

    Our readingThe real danger in AI-driven growth is geographic: 50% growth in and around Silicon Valley and business as usual everywhere else.

    Their wordsa worry I have is that the growth rate could be like 50% in Silicon Valley and, you know, parts of the world that are kind of socially connected to Silicon Valley and, you know, not that much faster than its current pace elsewhere. And I think that'd be a pretty messed up world.

    ↗Dario Amodei — “We are near the end of the exponential”youtube.com 19th of 29 in this recording

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  12. 1 day earlier
  13. LF

    Lex Fridman quoted

    Our readingSilicon Valley talking only to itself has produced a dismissal of ordinary human experience everywhere else.

    Their wordsthere’s also within that excitement, and within everybody talking just to each other, there’s a dismissal of the basic human experience across the United States and the Midwest, across the world.

    ↗OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491youtube.com 30th of 30 in this recording

    America

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  14. 5 weeks earlier
  15. JH

    Jensen Huang quoted

    Our readingDeepSeek's paper was the single most important thing Silicon Valley researchers read in years.

    Their wordsThis is, you know, let's face it, Deep Seek was probably the single most important paper that most Silicon Valley researchers read from in the last couple years.

    ↗NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang on Reasoning Models, Robotics, and Refuting the “AI Bubble” Narrativeyoutube.com 10th of 20 in this recording

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  16. 6 months earlier
  17. JD

    Jamie Dimon quoted

    Our readingSilicon Valley Bank failed because its deposits were concentrated, not because they were uninsured -- the usual account of it is a misstatement.

    Their wordsBut they they both had something something unique that we didn't know at the time. I'm going to call them concentrated deposits. Not uninsured cuz people are misstating that, concentrated.

    ↗The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bankyoutube.com 15th of 19 in this recording

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  18. 5 months earlier
  19. NL

    Nathan Lambert quoted

    Our readingStealing AI code and data is hard and stealing ideas is easy, because Silicon Valley already moves ideas legally, inside the heads of the people it hires.

    Their wordsCode and data is hard, but ideas is easy. Silicon Valley operates on the way that top employees get bought out by other companies for a pay raise, and a large reason why these companies do this is to bring ideas with them.

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 32nd of 44 in this recording

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  20. 5 months earlier
  21. PG

    Paul Graham quoted

    Our readingThere are two ways to run a company — founder mode and manager mode — and Silicon Valley has wrongly assumed that scaling a startup means switching to the second.

    Their wordsIn effect there are two different ways to run a company: founder mode and manager mode. Till now most people even in Silicon Valley have implicitly assumed that scaling a startup meant switching to manager mode.

    ↗Founder Modepaulgraham.com 2nd of 6 in this piece

    startups

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  22. 21 months earlier
  23. MG

    Matthew Green quoted

    Our readingNobody chose cloud backup: a handful of Silicon Valley executives made the choice for everyone in pursuit of adoption metrics.

    Their wordsA handful of Silicon Valley executives made the choice for us, in pursuit of adoption metrics and a “magical” user experience.

    ↗Why encrypted backup is so importantblog.cryptographyengineering.com 1st of 2 in this piece

    design

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  24. 4 years earlier
  25. SB

    Samo Burja quoted

    Our readingSilicon Valley celebrates disruption because it has given up on institutions ever solving their succession problem.

    Their wordsSilicon Valley enthuses over “disruption” because we have become so used to the succession problem remaining unsolved within discrete institutions such as companies.

    ↗The Succession Problemsamoburja.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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