Like most of Graham’s essays on non-startup topics, he extrapolates well beyond his data and confuses his map for the territory. I like the essay and the framework, but it’s mostly bunk; you could make similar arguments completely shuffled around by examining a different subculture of each city and cherry-picking different examples.
Like most of Graham’s essays on non-startup topics, he extrapolates well beyond his data and confuses his map for the territory. I like the essay and the framework, but it’s mostly bunk; you could make similar arguments completely shuffled around by examining a different subculture of each city and cherry-picking different examples.