@lennysan: .@illscience: "Moats are discovered, not designed."
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Lenny Rachitsky discusses @illscience's claim that economic challenges in tech are often overstated, citing improved conditions and differing job market outcomes from predictions.
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.@illscience: “Moats are discovered, not designed.” https://t.co/13vSD75U9R
Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan): The “permanent underclass” is a dark fantasy Silicon Valley keeps telling itself.
@illscience (GP at @a16z) points out that by almost every measure, things have never been better, and the job-loss story hasn’t played out as people thought. Radiologists have been “cooked” for 20
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