This is day 5 in the Silicon Valley for me, it is Sunday evening for me here and I am sitting outside, looking at the sky, stars, sitting in a Hängematte. Once your eyes get used to seeing possibilities there are so many opportunities. Once you get used to work at big scale you stop thinking about small problems on the way and concentrate on what is actually important and, assuming it works out, what might be the issues with the initial idea.
Thinking in opportunities is the default here in the Silicon Valley. When pitching a few ideas to people back in Europe I sometimes got the reaction of “wow, but you know what’s a lot of work to be done” - creating a sort of negative response and making me less certain about the idea. What happens if you pitch the same idea to someone in the Silicon Valley? “Yes, I believe you can do this and it will yield a nice paper, but here is the problem with this because I have done something similar already”.
With that, what’s my closing of the “first (half) week” in “The Valley”? I have been here a few times already but never experienced so many different diverse inputs and made so many new impressions and “WOW” effects on the way. Never realised how near the future (= scifi movies) actually is (yes, if you see something in a SciFi movie today, you can be sure it is worked on in at least 2 places here and will be reality in 5 to 10 years). Maybe I see things too optimistic here and things will take longer than 5 to 10 years in reality but lets take this as a sign that I got infected by the “EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE” syndrome of the valley - if that is good or bad, I don’t know yet.
What I know is that I am having a lot of fun and feel super lucky to be here.
BTW, Life is good.
:) =] :D :’)