Comments on: The Silicon Valley “Bubble”

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By: chrisyeh

chrisyeh — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 15:27:00 +0000

You can avoid drinking the Valley Kool-Aid as long as you maintain friendships with people who are 1) outside the Valley, and 2) not in the high-tech industry. It’s too easy to dismiss your parents as being out of touch; harder to do so with a peer.

By: Quora

Quora — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:50:03 +0000

Are you reluctant to move to California despite it making all kinds of sense? Why?…

Here are some of the reasons why I’m reluctant to move. 1. Family pull & local attachment. 2. SV is a cultural singularity, a reality-distortion bubble. I’m wary of losing touch with the normal world. http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/the-silicon-valley-…

By: Rodger

Rodger — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:53:00 +0000

I just did my own rant on a similar topic.

Why Is Your Software Such Crap??!!!
http://rodgersnotes.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/why-is-your-software-such-crap/

I say, software is supposed to serve us. We are not supposed to serve the software.

Another variation are managers who use MS Project and expect that everything will go perfectly. When in reality software projects usually have lots of surprise factor. Especially when everyone skips the analysis, and design phases and just charges ahead coding.

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:05:16 +0000

Or a variation: software is designed to fit the behavior of the designer(s), not the behavior of people everywhere else in the world.

Thus, gmail.

Sometimes useful, sometimes annoying.

By: Luddite « Not The User’s Fault

Luddite « Not The User’s Fault — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:12:45 +0000

[...] a good post by Hang at Bumblebee Labs (a blog that is well worth reading, by the way) titled The Silicon Valley "Bubble". Hang argues that the real difference between Silicon Valley and the rest of the world is In the [...]

By: Hang

Hang — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:49:07 +0000

Hi Tobias,

Thanks for your comments! Of course, I was making an extreme point with my dichotomy, people can be forced, through extreme effort, to change the fundamentals of how they behave to better accommodate technology.

The difference in the valley is the casualness of it and the feeling that it's not a big deal. It's a failure to appreciate that, for their software to be useful requires a major lifestyle change for most people.

By: Tobias Prinz

Tobias Prinz — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:00:29 +0000

See, always try to sell my lack of flexibility as “basic usability analysis”.

Here's my take on the part about adopting behaviours to fit technologies:

Adapting your life to fit a technology is not generally bad. Actually, it is how we humans do most things, isn't it? Writing for example: Isn't it strange that we adapted so much that most stuff we use requires us to be able to read the instructions/street signs?

The fun things is: Early adopters usually adapt to stupid things, too. It is somewhat hard to decide when this makes sense or not. I chose not to be an early adopter. I may not be as cool, but it preserves my dignity

So, on the calendar thing: I happen to work for a company that went to great lengths to implement this privacy thing in a company calendar, starting more than 5 years ago. I'd say that most products that force openness do it because it is easier and the devs were pissed off by all the complicated use cases / user stories / narratives. But some went this way, because modeling a consistent system based on our behaviours (“no, my secretary does not need to know where I spend the night, but she needs some facts to tell my wife” is one of my favourite use cases. I very much deny the existence of such user stories in our technical documents, of course) sometimes does not work.

In this case, technology gives us a hint how we can change our lives to be more consistent, which, for me, saves me a lot of trouble.

Another example: Being logged in here with my twitter account forced me to make a conscious decision about the information I am divulging. It actually made my life better to adapt to this “I'm me”/”I'm someone fake”/”I'm anonymous” trinity of personalities

But yes, people also do stupid things because of technology. And those in The Valley probably more than most

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