San Francisco

San Francisco is the Bay Area city at the center of the wiki’s arguments about technology, housing, governance and where talent chooses to live.

Governance. Michelle Tandler spent months researching the city’s issues, producing roughly 35 typed pages linking about 100 sources, and concluded the problems are complex (I have been researching San… (tweet); filed under Government and Policy). A Guardian article covers the city’s funding and plan for Homelessness and the argument that “service-resistance” reflects a system built without dignity (San Francisco Has Money And A New Plan To Tackle Homelessness. Will It Finally Change Things?, Service Design).
Leaving and rebuilding. After the 2020 layoffs at Airbnb, Lyft and Uber, Jeff Morris Jr. predicted that employees “living in an overpriced city” would leave and remote work would accelerate (The layoffs at Airbnb, Lyft… (tweet), Remote Work, Prosperable). Balaji Srinivasan argued that “it’s easier to start a new town than to reform San Francisco” (It’s easier to start a… (tweet), Network State).
History. City on the Edge covers thirty-five years of the city’s technology and politics.
Culture. In Techno-Optimism, Talent Vortexes, and Writing Investing 101, Kyle Harrison says most people in the city would not call it a hub of culture, but a hub of hard work and technological innovation.

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