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Tech Bro Gospel 101: 20 Meritocracy produced us
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 20 THE BELIEF "Silicon Valley is a pure meritocracy. The best ideas, the hardest workers, the most visionary founders rise to the top be…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 19 AI will free humans from drudgery
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 19 THE BELIEF Artificial intelligence will liberate humanity from the soul-crushing drudgery of repetitive work, allowing us to pursue h…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 18 Web3 will give creators ownership
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 18 THE BELIEF Web3 will give creators ownership of their work. No more middlemen, no more platforms taking 30%—just direct, immutable, d…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 17 Crypto will bank the unbanked
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 17 THE BELIEF Crypto will bank the unbanked. By replacing slow, corrupt, and exclusionary financial systems with decentralized, permissi…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 16 We are building towards abundance
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 16 THE BELIEF We are building toward abundance—an era of limitless resources, where technology dissolves scarcity, and humanity thrives …
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 15 The mainstream media is always lying
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 15 THE BELIEF The mainstream media is not just biased—it is always lying. Every word from legacy outlets is a calculated deception, a to…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 14 Disruption is inherently good
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 14 THE BELIEF Disruption is inherently good. When new technology upends old industries—taxi drivers, hotel owners, journalists, factory …
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 13 Move fast and break things
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 13 THE BELIEF “Move fast and break things” is the natural law of innovation—disruption is the price of progress. What looks like reckles…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 12 Elon Musk is the real life Tony Stark
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 12 THE BELIEF Elon Musk is the real-life Tony Stark—a genius inventor, fearless entrepreneur, and technological savior who builds the fu…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 11 AI will solve climate change
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 11 THE BELIEF “AI will solve climate change.” The promise is delivered with the cadence of inevitability: machine learning will optimize…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 10 The Network State will replace government
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 10 THE BELIEF Governments are obsolete relics, and democracy is a failed experiment. The future belongs to "Network States"—startup citi…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 09 Nation states are obsolete
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 9 THE BELIEF Nation states are obsolete. The future belongs to borderless networks, digital communities, and decentralized governance. T…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 08 Longtermism justifies anything done today
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 8 THE BELIEF Longtermism is the moral philosophy that the far future—trillions of potential humans across millennia—matters more than th…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 07 We are the most well-read people in any room
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 7 THE BELIEF We are the most well-read people in any room. Our intellectual diet—Nick Land’s accelerationist manifestos, Curtis Yarvin’s…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 06 The market always produces the best outcome
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 6 THE BELIEF “The market always produces the best outcome.” It is a law as immutable as gravity, we are told—an iron rule of efficiency,…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 05 Competition is for losers
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 5 THE BELIEF “Competition is for losers.” So declared Peter Thiel in Zero to One, his 2014 manifesto on startups and capitalism. The lin…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 04 Democracy is too slow for the pace of technology
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 4 THE BELIEF Democracy is too slow for the pace of technology. The deliberation, the checks, the public debate—these are relics of an an…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 03 Effective Altruism means doing maximum good
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 3 THE BELIEF Effective Altruism is a rigorous, evidence-based philosophy for doing the most good possible with limited resources. By app…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 02 Regulation is always the enemy of progress
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 2 THE BELIEF “Regulation is always the enemy of progress.” So say the founders, investors, and executives who built the modern internet.…
Tech Bro Gospel 101: 01 Introspection and self-reflection are modern inventions
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SILICON VALLEY Day 1 THE BELIEF Introspection is a modern pathology—a 20th-century indulgence that distracts from the real work of building the future. The…