maniacs
I've spent two weeks in SF.
The main thing I've learnt is this: The maniacs to non-maniacs ratio in SF is a lot higher.
You meet people doing wildly ambitious things, not for status, but because they're a maniac on a mission.
My main takeaway is to continually try to expand the surface area over which I might meet a maniac.
A couple of tips to do so:
- email people you admire
- dm people on twitter
- maniacs are disproportionately likely to have a personal blog/site. use exa.ai to do semantic search over the topics you are passionate about/interested in and write to them.