@Moon @lain

I remember that I thought "Painters" was the point at which Graham jumped the shark with his essays. But I suspect that I was negatively biased by his claims that founders living in rat cages of San Francisco was necessary for startups. Unfortunately, at the time it looked like he was winning and I probably felt like being extra critical.

It all happened before the Wuhan Corona and the exodus from Frisco to Tahoe.

The sweetest part for me is, I knew a guy in 1998, Andy Banta, who lived in Tahoe. He commuted to work at Sun in MPK twice a week. Sun tolerated him because he was very good and we still had vestiges of meritocracy back then. Talk about being ahead of the curve.