Some time ago I was reading an article on Nick Denton, from Wired, it said:

In summer 2001, Denton left San Francisco with a raised middle finger, writing a blistering attack for UK-based Management Today on the “corrupt and lethargic” city and the “culturally and socially flawed” Silicon Valley.

I thought it was an interesting comment and observation, in my own two cents comparing New York City to San Francisco.

Yesterday the New York Times penned something on how money is never enough in Silicon Valley.  Like most, I was turned off to put it mildly.

All to say, indeed, San Francisco is a great city in some ways, awfully similar to my hometown Montreal, but very different in that here we work to live, whereas in cities like Toronto (who Montreal is compared to frequently), people live to work.  I’d say in SF, it’s closer to living to work than working to live.

Of course, talking about San Francisco when one is in fact talking about Silicon Valley is unfair.  But so much of San Francisco is impacted by what goes on in the Valley.

I don’t see all that much wrong with using money to keep track of the score.  I personally am not driven by money… but in the Western world, it’s foolish to think that money isn’t the yardstick to compare people.  The problem, really, is that the ethical barometer and the hierarchy of needs is, for lack of a better word, twacked.  I could 15 examples of how we give the totally wrong set of objectives to young people there, but, I would not be stating anything new, I guess.

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