coaxidleglobe

Travelogue

New York… and San Francisco! Can’t have one without the other. “And L.A., oh, fucking L.A….” The Beatles! What an important moment that was! And Steve Jobs, who came later! Wait, I’m getting ahead of myself. When you go to the bank to ask for a loan, you cut your hair, but I don’t plan on doing that any time soon. Everyone in California was cool and communist, and for a while in NYC too… they all moved West… fuck, I need to know more about the history of Silicon Valley… It’s not the same now. Jordan Peterson would prescribe it as a moral collapse…. But the Beatles around ’65 grew their hair out, and all the communist hippies were like “holy shit that’s a great idea we are going to adopt that as our moniker”. Everyone in California did that. “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood” hey, as long as you can write a script, ~120 pages, in L.A., you’re good. There are a lot more water views around the Bay area though. Because, you know, it’s a bay. There’s only one Long Beach… So your Stanford/Berkeley dyad will get a hell of a lot more done than your USC/UCLA dyad (Ponoma? Caltech?) - Plus, George Berkeley, protestant ministers reading books during the gold rush, communism… I guess L.A. wasn’t going to be the hub. Point the cameras northward now, go ahead, and appoint an internal ambassador to Hollywood, Anthropic has hit a $1T valuation before OpenAI. And build those datacenters, too. Be careful to demoralize the local populations only at <...