> The best, brightest, smartest, pedigreed, hardest working most motivated people on earth.
Silicon Valley has the brightest minds in software engineering, which is great for building the world's most advanced ad-serving network or behavior tracking.
Software is easy.
The Bay Area's housing and infrastructure issues require political, social, economic, and engineering management fluency; these problems will not be solved by software engineering.
These problems will not be solved by "disruption."
These problems are hard.
> And we cant solve the simplest problems in the Maslow's hierarchy.
Maslow's hierarchy seems focused on individual psychology.
Solving these problems for 7 million people with different values, cultures, and perspectives is not "simple."
> American Indians solved the housing problems with Teepees and Wigwams - so much for being "smart."
Yeah with a few orders of magnitude lower population and a drastically different standard of living.
This is a ridiculous over-exaggeration.
> Tokyo, 1945, burned to the ground, population 3.5 million.
Throwing it away and completely starting over might be the easiest way to fix a metro area's infrastructure issues.
But to your point there are also very significant cultural differences between CA and Japan; the present debacle can be blamed in a large part on CA's endemic cultural values.
Silicon Valley has the brightest minds in software engineering, which is great for building the world's most advanced ad-serving network or behavior tracking. Software is easy. The Bay Area's housing and infrastructure issues require political, social, economic, and engineering management fluency; these problems will not be solved by software engineering. These problems will not be solved by "disruption." These problems are hard.
> And we cant solve the simplest problems in the Maslow's hierarchy.
Maslow's hierarchy seems focused on individual psychology. Solving these problems for 7 million people with different values, cultures, and perspectives is not "simple."
> American Indians solved the housing problems with Teepees and Wigwams - so much for being "smart."
Yeah with a few orders of magnitude lower population and a drastically different standard of living. This is a ridiculous over-exaggeration.
> Tokyo, 1945, burned to the ground, population 3.5 million.
Throwing it away and completely starting over might be the easiest way to fix a metro area's infrastructure issues. But to your point there are also very significant cultural differences between CA and Japan; the present debacle can be blamed in a large part on CA's endemic cultural values.