Every Bay Area House Party

Funny writing from Scott, as usual, but my main takeaway from this was that I&#x27;m glad to live in New York, and not the Bay Area.<p>The events I go to here are attended by people from all different industries and walks of life. Putting too many tech-adjacent people in a room together has never made for great parties, in my experience.

&gt; have you heard of the Temple of Artemis? One of the Seven Wonders of the World. Burned down not by a Christian or a Muslim, but by a random Greek guy who wanted his name to be remembered by history<p>The Temple of Artemis was destroyed and rebuilt a few times. Herostratus burned the second temple in 356 BC and it was rebuilt in 323 BC. The list of ancient wonders dates from the time of the third temple.

I read this and felt like it was a party with a caricature parodying most of my interests, especially the part about steppe nomads. I don’t even live in the bay. Man, I need to step back from tech. Guess I should go become a zen monk or lay on the beach or something…

In a comment the author says:<p>&gt; Yes, but the fun part is that out of 100 of these people, one will end up a billionaire, and another will end up setting the cultural agenda for the next decade<p>The billionaire bit I get. Plenty of billionaires have come out of the Bay Area and will continue to come out of there. But what does he mean by “setting the cultural agenda”? Who from the Bay Area can claim to have done this, and if nobody yet, why does the author think it will start happening?

Holy shit! I think I was at that exact one. I stayed too late and the buddhist chick puked in my shoe.

I found it amusing that the fictional app “Partyr” he lampooned seemed like an actual service I would pay for. Throwing parties is stressful and hard.

No bonfire, no injuries, no conceptions? No sacrifice?<p>Lame! Truly the Bay area is full of the seeming of life with no substance.

Funny how brief visits form such firm, nuance-free opinions. I have strong opinions on French folks but my year in Spain showed a universe of humanity.<p>This condescending caricature will ring true for many who don’t live there and few who do — like most travelogues written for snark over insight.

There was a missed opportunity to connect the pilot whale theory to quantum suicide.

I wish Scott devoted his writing time entirely to fiction, it&#x27;s predictably enjoyable.

I feel there&#x27;s a comment on venture capital somewhere in this post.. :)

I feel called out.

This is peak HN.

&gt; “No, you don’t understand. This is just the first step. Once we make it super-big, we’ll introduce other things into the algorithm. Charities. Political causes. We’ll have millions of people competing to praise UNICEF in order to get that next million-dollar ViraCoin drop. If you think about it, all problems are caused by lack of awareness. We’re an at-scale solution to awareness. Solve that, and you solve poverty, inequality, racism…”<p>Poetry.