Posts tagged “silicon valley”

Arrington says Silicon Valley is a pure meritocracy where gender doesn't matter. He's wrong. Men don't take women in tech seriously by default, and that bias, multiplied across thousands of daily interactions, is exactly why so few women are here. That's on us, not them.

Ideas don't come from thinking alone, they're accidents born of conversation. The Bay Area's density of geeks means more collisions between clever people, more happy accidents. You don't need to be here to run a startup, but you probably need to be here to get the idea.

The genes that make great engineers also cause autism, and in Silicon Valley, mildly autistic programmers are meeting, marrying, and concentrating those genes in their children. The result: sharply rising rates of Asperger's. More on this soon.

The Economist profiles Cambridge's tech scene but seems baffled that companies there prioritize good products and lifestyle over IPOs. I find that attitude odd. Maybe not every tech hub needs to clone Silicon Valley, and maybe that's fine.