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Published · transcript-backedStewart Brand: belief
26 Jan 2022 Conversations with Tyler Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
“Whenever anybody says something disparaging about Silicon Valley and tech bros and so on, I think of Patrick and think, “Well, that’s bullsh — .”
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- Stewart Brand
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- 26 Jan 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…What do you think is missing in Silicon Valley because of this lack of interest in the visual arts, Jobs aside? You and I both know Patrick Collison, and I see Patrick as a . . . Whenever anybody says something disparaging about Silicon Valley and tech bros and so on, I think of Patrick and think, “Well, that’s bullsh — . ” He’s, personally, the one I know of the current set. I’ve had some people who got in touch and said admiring things, like Marc Andreessen, and Jack [Dorsey] at Twitter, and Chris Cox at Facebook, so I feel some personal connection with everybody. What I’m gibbering about here is I have no theory of Silicon Valley at all, Tyler. What’s yours? [laughs] Stripe Press books are beautiful. I would stress that, but maybe there’s something about the engineering mindset that in some ways runs counter to the aesthetic mindset.…
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