Readit NewsAnd imho they have the hardest jobs on the planet today.
There isn't a course on Khan Academy, that they can take, which tells them what to do when uncontrolled chain reactions are set off by Social networks. The results will always be messy.
And to then say if they just did the "right thing" all will be well, isn't being very realistic. When the "right thing" for different sections of society is so different.
I think it's interesting for that reason though, because it doesn't say as much about his actual lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other people. For instance:
> As a matter of principle, I refuse to own a tie.
Tells us more about an opinion he's made about other people. If he wanted to be more descriptive of his lifestyle, he could have said that he was aesthetically minimalist (or minimalist with accessories in general). Instead ties become a value judgement, and he sees tie-wearers as "victims" at best.
In fact, though many would describe him as minimalist in lifestyle if they had to sum it up in a sentence, he doesn't use the term. This piece is really exclusively opinions.
> When I wait for my baggage in an airport, I always do one of these two. And I notice the people around me, feeling anxious and getting nothing done. What a waste.
His reasoning in general here seems arbitrary and condescending. If I didn't know who we were reading about beforehand I'd gander they were prone to being capricious. I wonder if we should tell him that trains run non-free software, just like phones.
In general the biggest takeaway I got from this is that he seems to have a very negative view of almost all other people.
1. Housing costs (too expensive)
2. Transportation time / locality (takes too long to get elsewhere in the Bay Area, probably can't live near the job because of #1)
3. Climate - San Fran is rather cold nearly all year round.
4. Because of 1 and 2 likely would not have a garage or space to do projects in.
5. Sometimes things seem rather legally onerous in CA/Bay Area.
6. Regional tunnel vision. When I lived in Northern California I got sick of hearing how it was 'the best place on Earth.'