It's very strange watching the frenzy occurring in Silicon Valley right now.
Everyone's caught in a vicious cycle of hyperproductivity: you see someone else working 996 and talking about how hard they're working.
So then you need to too.
You see someone else raise a monster round and talk about "how successful they are".
So then you feel the need to too.
It's a mix of megalomania and fear.
90% of people are burned out, recognizing that they're working at an unsustainable rate.
But capitalism waits for no one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
One day we'll all wake up and realize that things we actually wanted...
We could have had for free all along:
Being Human. Family. Being in Nature. Community.
It'll all just be financialized by then... with a data center built on top 🫠