{"id":18410,"date":"2013-06-28T03:16:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18410"},"modified":"2013-06-28T03:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T01:16:02","slug":"whats-the-dark-side-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/28\/whats-the-dark-side-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the dark side of Silicon Valley?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been keeping an eye on this Quora question<\/a> for a while now. \u00a0Indeed, we mostly hear about all the greatness of the Silicon Valley, but there are much be a few downsides to living and working there. \u00a0What are they? \u00a0There are many great answers in the thread. \u00a0Some are more insightful than others. \u00a0One particular bit that I liked is this one<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sh!tty technology<\/strong>. This one might surprise people. Aren’t we in the center of technology? Well, here’s the truth. 95 percent of these so-called startups are marketing experiments that (a) don’t need great technology and (b) have to execute fast, which means they pile on the technical debt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been keeping an eye on this Quora question for a while now. \u00a0Indeed, we mostly hear about all the greatness of the Silicon Valley, but there are much be a few downsides to living and working there. \u00a0What are they? \u00a0There are many great answers in the thread. \u00a0Some are more insightful than others. … Continue reading What’s the dark side of Silicon Valley?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[1968,429,1128,3202,2395],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-lifestyle","tag-silicon-valley","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29207,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/09\/silicon-valley-hierarchy-of-needs\/","url_meta":{"origin":18410,"position":0},"title":"Silicon Valley Hierarchy Of Needs","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"While reading this not funny post, I came across the Silicon Valley Hierarchy of Needs, which I think is hilarious. 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