{"id":7371,"date":"2018-03-05T17:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7371"},"modified":"2018-03-05T17:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:38:53","slug":"linked-chickens-have-come-to-roost-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/03\/05\/linked-chickens-have-come-to-roost-in-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Chickens have come to roost in Silicon Valley&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2264,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/om.co\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/05\\\/chickens-have-come-to-roost-in-silicon-valley&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230208104848\\\/https:\\\/\\\/om.co\\\/2018\\\/03\\\/05\\\/chickens-have-come-to-roost-in-silicon-valley\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:14:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 15:31:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 15:49:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 12:44:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 15:21:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 14:40:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 11:09:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 02:27:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 18:05:29&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 14:58:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 14:58:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2265,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/modernistcuisine.com\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/why-cook-sous-vide&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200518052131\\\/https:\\\/\\\/modernistcuisine.com\\\/2013\\\/01\\\/why-cook-sous-vide\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:14:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-03 15:31:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-12-21 15:49:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-05 12:44:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:202},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-20 15:21:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-01 14:40:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-21 11:09:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-22 02:27:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 18:05:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 14:58:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 14:58:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2266,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.uber.com\\\/our-story&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230516211156\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.uber.com\\\/our-story\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:14:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:406}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-03 23:14:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:406},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/om.co\/2018\/03\/05\/chickens-have-come-to-roost-in-silicon-valley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chickens have come to roost in Silicon Valley<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026in the Bay Area \u2014 where the nation\u2019s preeminent local food movement overlaps with the nation\u2019s tech elite \u2014 egg-laying chickens are now a trendy, eco-conscious humblebrag on par with driving a Tesla.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When reading this article, I was once again reminded that Silicon Valley denizens go over the top in their obsessiveness and turn normal, mundane and sometimes boring aspects of things into an A-B test. It is not just chickens. It is everything \u2013 from <a href=\"http:\/\/modernistcuisine.com\/2013\/01\/why-cook-sous-vide\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sous vide<\/a>, flipping pizzas to make sourdough bread.<\/p>\n<p>What starts out as a way to relax eventually turns into a growth hack, a way to improve efficiencies and obviously talk about it on the social media. This mindset is pervasive. This is who we\/they are. \u00a0There isn\u2019t an off-switch and basically, despite best efforts to relax, there are hardly who know how to relax. The obsessiveness in many ways is what which makes Silicon Valley people successful in their day job.<\/p>\n<p>Do you really think we could have had cars-on-demand if someone wasn\u2019t obsessed with hacking \u201ctaxi industry\u201d and \u201climousines\u201d because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uber.com\/our-story\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">they had to wait for a cab<\/a> too long in Paris?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>:P<\/p>\n<p>Only Om has been able to capture exactly what I\u2019ve thought about and failed to put into words since leaving SF. It\u2019s what originally drew me to the city and causes me to miss it still to this day. No one I meet day to day in New Hampshire is as obsessive about everything as the people in the valley were. You have obsessive people who are masters at their trade and do it for decades making improvements only experience can give them\u2026but people who take small annoyances and run with it? I don\u2019t know how my GF deals with my monologuing and data analysis I do simply on appliances around the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chickens have come to roost in Silicon Valley: \u2026in the Bay Area \u2014 where the nation\u2019s preeminent local&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-03-05T17:39:03Z","apple_news_api_id":"a61eda64-0dee-4c39-928c-b462cda69604","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-03-05T17:39:05Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Aph7aZA3uTDmSjLRizaaWBA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1UT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6984,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/linked-silicon-valley-is-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":7371,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Silicon Valley is Dead&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Micah Baldwin: (A Medium Blog) Givers, by definition, are looking to add value to the user; whereas Takers are looking to extract value from the user. 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