Some think this might be why the lucky stiff.
The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
> SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west Only in your tiny bubble. People seriously believe this?
You realize you are posting this using about 99% tech developed in the valley, right? I like the idea. Not sure if it will fly or not -- after all, once you've read one nerd-takes-the-world story, you've read them all. But we could do with a new genre.
I didn't realize Bell Labs (Unix), Microsoft (Widndows), CERN (HTTP), and DARPA (TCP/IP) were based out of Silicon Valley.
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#73Some think this might be why the lucky stiff. https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/671713994441293824
It doesn't not seem like something _why would do.
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#74Self-referential, technology-focused and shaped texts like this make me wonder what the new, dominant school of thought will be for this generation's western literature. Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west that it would be hard for authors today t…
> SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west Only in your tiny bubble. People seriously believe this?
The bubble exists, but it's ludicrous to believe that SV startups don't have profound effects outside it. What % of people use Google, or Facebook, or Android/iOS every day in the west?
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
> SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west Only in your tiny bubble. People seriously believe this?
You realize you are posting this using about 99% tech developed in the valley, right? I like the idea. Not sure if it will fly or not -- after all, once you've read one nerd-takes-the-world story, you've read them all. But we could do with a new genre.
Like my Nokia phone running Windows using the World Wide Web over 802.11 to an Alcatel DSL modem connecting to a Motorola DSLAM? - damnit, vkou beat me to the punch
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Postmodernism was never alive in the sense to which the parent refers. Now that we've neatly rejected the premise of that comment, let's move on: nobody cares or knows about transmodernism, or any other literary movement (be it imaginary, as — in the case of transmodernism — or otherwise) The days in which a movement could be dominant are long past us. That's sort of the point.
Transmodernism isn't a literary movement, and no one needs to know what it is for it to become the dominant intellectual paradigm.
It's easy to say you've figured out what everyone is doing if you just introduce a term and define it as "what everyone is doing".
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#77Self-referential, technology-focused and shaped texts like this make me wonder what the new, dominant school of thought will be for this generation's western literature. Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west that it would be hard for authors today t…
> SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west Only in your tiny bubble. People seriously believe this?
Oh yes, they believe it.
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#78I bought the kindle edition and I don't get the hype about this book at all. First of all it's barely a book, it's not even a novella, it's pretty much zine length. It's a 10-15 min read. I'm thinking I made a mistake in getting the electronic version since the charm seems to be in the physicality of it. There is some cleverness in the story but it's so brief that the real phenomenon here is not poignant satire, inst…
I don't get it either. The story is very short and barely funny. And, frankly, the whole thing feels like a PR stunt of some sort. Whatever the motivation, they seem to be succeeding though, it's definitely going viral.
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#79Self-referential, technology-focused and shaped texts like this make me wonder what the new, dominant school of thought will be for this generation's western literature. Post-modernism [1] has been considered "dead" for about 10-15 years with no discernible movement coalescing to replace it. SV, entrepreneurship, and startup culture have had such a profound effect on the west that it would be hard for authors today t…
> Or will there be some literary movement borne out of SV culture to supplement these classic texts?
LOL
Re: The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech world insiders
#80I bought the kindle edition and I don't get the hype about this book at all. First of all it's barely a book, it's not even a novella, it's pretty much zine length. It's a 10-15 min read. I'm thinking I made a mistake in getting the electronic version since the charm seems to be in the physicality of it. There is some cleverness in the story but it's so brief that the real phenomenon here is not poignant satire, inst…
I read the link, and I agree. It's just a few hundred words with ridiculous tweets interspersed. Whenever the first time I hear about something is from a story about how popular it is, my spider sense tingles.