Balaji Srinivasan at Startup School 2013

There are companies like teleport [LINK] that try to visualise this potential with data. Also recommend this YCombinator startup school talk by Balaji Srinivasan on this topic: Silicon Valleys Ultimate Exit [VIDEO]

One of the speakers here. I found the online reaction to my talk pretty interesting as a case study in internet telephone. Here's the talk itself: [VIDEO] First party viewers mostly seemed to like it: [LINK] CNET gave a second party writeup: [LINK] Then third party people started mischaracterizing it: [LINK] Finally, the Hill wrote a fourth party account, quoting these third party accounts, and that's what Washington DC saw: [LINK] Not everyone got it wrong; I think this account is closer: [LINK] But I encourage you to open up those tabs and go through them one by one to see a kind of pinball reflection of the tone of the talk. In microcosm it's an example of the emerging gap between Silicon Valley and DC, and gives a sense of how policy makers can inadvertently form their opinions from echoes of echoes. Doubly ironic and somewhat sad as we can use the internet to make direct connections between people these days. The good thing is that interested parties can see the primary source directly.

...and the website is not the worst part of the ACA ride we are now on. Part of me has been ignoring a lot of the chatter around the ACA as potential right wing fabricated drama. Too much noise and bilateral bullshit being thrown about these days. That was until a few days ago, when I would learn our insurance has both more than doubled in cost and is also scheduled for cancellation. Doubled and cancelled. All as a direct result of the ACA. Brilliant! To say this was shocking is an understatement. Our annual cost will go well past $15K. There's a tragedy of unintended consequences, side effects and direct effects, being played out in the background that hasn't completely come to the surface yet. We certainly can't be the last family to get news of this kind. That means in the coming months it is likely hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of additional individuals and families are going to receive these dreaded letters. Apparently hundreds of thousands already have. Last week was our turn. At one point this and other issues will be difficult to ignore. And they will dwarf the IT issues. The website, as much of a disaster as it is, is likely to pale in comparison to all of the other, non IT, issues. Some of what's happening is related to the incredible disconnect between Washington and technology. All you need to do is listen to some of these folks talk about the website issue to see how little they understand. I heard one senator say something akin to "they just have to re

The talk "Silicon Valley's Ultimate Exit" that the article mentions was (also?) given at Startup School a few weeks ago: [VIDEO]

Here's the original talk for anyone that prefers original content to the "journalist telephone" game [VIDEO]

> Silicon Valley ideologues are proposing secession I believe no one ever said this; it has been misreported by Gawker and others. If you're curious, the original talk is here with no mention of secession: [VIDEO]

Interesting that Balaji Srinivasan talked about this concept of Silicon Valley as the enemy at startup school last year. [VIDEO]

> In that case, immigration is the only choice. That would be the "exit" from [0]. [0] - [VIDEO]