

Silicon Valley/SF has always behaved this way during this phase of the cycle, but this time it has gone further and higher than ever. As someone who spent a lot of years in the Valley I feel it whenever I go back — my friends there think think they are a superior strain of our species, and that this will last forever, and that their coffee has magic…
Good article, and a fair evaluation. As a University of Waterloo grad with 18 years in Silicon Valley, I also have some good perspective on this.
I disagree with you only on two points:
1 “…the average tenure of a developer is somewhere between 1 to 1.5 years. I have associated a cost to this quick…