What Marco Arment thinks about Silicon Valley

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Developer and podcaster; created Instapaper and Overcast, co-founded Tumblr, and co-hosts the Accidental Tech Podcast.

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1. 1 Apr 2026

   Our readingThe tech industry today is dominated by scale-driven optimization and growth at the expense of the idealism that once drove it

   Their wordsImmense scale, soulless optimization, and an insatiable thirst for growth dominate its behavior and discourse, leaving little room for the spirit and principles embodied by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.

   ↗A letter to John Ternusmarco.org 1st of 3 in this piece