Cities and Ambition (2008)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the relationship between my environment and my personal growth lately. Small ways, like how people perceive your choice of city–a founder told me they think of New York as a “lifestyle city” for example, at least if you’re in tech. Big ways, like who your neighbors will be–a lot of my friends have talked about moving there not just for fun, but because it’s where their customers are. Of course, pg was writing about this in 2008 and SF and New York are very different cities now than they were back then, but not so different that his framework isn’t useful.