Is the fossil fuel recovery real, or a stepping stone to a fossil-free future? Tim Ferriss is a bestselling author and star podcast host with a huge following in the tech industry.
He was alarmed by what he determined to be an increasingly prevalent closed-mindedness and lack of inspiration. Largely due to smart and relentless networking with tech influencers, Tim Ferriss' book " The 4-Hour Workweek " became a sensation in Silicon Valley, and Ferriss soon found himself giving presentations at places like Google.
Ferriss had created a brand that was something like a Tony Robbins geared to the tech set, targeted to young creative people obsessed with efficiency.
After making some money to play with, he took investing lessons from his venture capitalist friend Mike Maples and made some bets that turned out to be hugely successful, including Uber and Twitter. He grew his career as a Valley celebrity. But after a couple decades spent living throughout the Bay Area, Ferriss moved this year to Austin, Texas.
And as he recently explained to Business Insider, this wasn't on a whim; it was a difficult decision he made after determining that Silicon Valley had officially changed for the worse. Ferriss said that if you were to ask most techies in the Bay Area about the degree of how open-minded people there are, "the party line is: 'Yes. We court diversity, and we want to hear every and any opinions that we can pull the best from different worlds. This year especially, the Valley has faced careful scrutiny of its history of gender discrimination and lack of cultural diversity — but instead of using open discussions to address these issues, Ferriss believes, many people in tech have started to walk on eggshells.
Ferriss said that while he considers himself "very socially liberal," there's a tangible feeling in tech now that "if you don't conform to what Silicon Valley views as the established set of credos and beliefs for a hyperliberal, you do get attacked. People do not ask many questions of your beliefs. They do not necessarily try to unpeel the layers or look at the nuances but instead respond immediately with this very, very violent opposition and ad hominem attack.
And that really depresses me. Ferriss isn't the only one to highlight this tendency — a December blog post from Sam Altman , the president of tech incubator Y Combinator, ignited fury after he said the Valley was overly politically correct, and suffers for it.
Ferriss said that some of the most brilliant people he's ever met in his life live and work in the Bay Area, but there are plenty of people there who are "arrogant" and "intolerable. It's become en vogue, he argued, to believe that tech leaders have all the answers to all of the world's problems, but not in a way that promotes discussion or invites flexibility. Ferriss said that the Valley, once the beacon that beckoned some of the world's most creative and ambitious young people, has become as homogeneous as Hollywood or Wall Street as it has matured.
There is also a mono-conversation of tech that is near impossible to avoid much like entertainment is some parts of LA , where every dinner has some discussion of rounds of funding, investing, and who is doing what with Uber, Amazon, or someone else. This can be dodged, but it takes very real and consistent effort. Ferriss said that he's liked Austin for a long time, and traveled annually for the past decade for the South by Southwest festival.
Not only does he like the weather and culture, but, "in Austin I found a When we discussed his new book " Tribe of Mentors ," Ferriss told us that he wrote it this year because he found himself entering a turning point in his career, where he was going to be much more deliberate about what he wants to accomplish.
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The suspicion of witchcraft in Salem caused hysteria among the townspeople, which lead to the destruction of many good Christian people and their families. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!
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When Hitler came to power he produced a list of scientists claiming that the science of Jewish scholars was false. It is the same cheap and bogus political trick that climate science deniers use. Lists mean nothing. If you have a stronger scientific argument — show it.
AGW deniers seem to overlook the cumulative nature of the scientific process. Every nitpicking attack against AGW is false or irrelevant. Where we are today is the accumulated knowledge of thousands of scientific studies by thousands of scientists, the overwhelming majority of which serve as validation for the AGW hypothesis. Absent an alternative hypothesis that passes the same rigorous standards, deniers have nothing — except political and personal attacks and factual misrepresentations.
In fact, the entire anti-AGW argument hinges on the existence of a mythical worldwide scientific conspiracy. Well let's see, Joseph Romm criticized an exceedingly poorly-researched chapter on climate change solutions in Dubner's book on his blog. The misrepresentation of Caldeira was only the tip of the error-riddled iceberg. The authors also claimed that solar panels contribute to global warming, for example. It was just an awful chapter yes, I actually read it.
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