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Slouching Towards San Francisco
My answer to "How is life in San Francisco?"
It’s quite a loud fifth of the population, judging by the conversations I overhear in cafés (almost entirely about stand-ups, funding rounds, and coding exams); or the number of times I’ve waited for a trolleybus to arrive, only to discover a blacked-out private bus for tech employees using the same stop. Today, college students drop out to inhabit vacant apartments in “ Cerebral Valley ”, friends relocate via gig economy apps, and billboards broadcast a tech-infused language unintelligible to most of the city’s residents. On the one hand, I am sceptical that I will ever have a handheld, intelligent butler who tells me how to structure my daily meetings and whether I should quit my job to pursue what I’m truly good at: drinking expensive iced coffees and forgetting to call my mom.
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