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Why isn’t Silicon Valley more engaged civically? For those that have done well, you don’t see folks engaging in local non-profits (the arts, homelessness, etc) the way people do in NY or LA. And given that we are nothing if not systems designers, can we design a solution? ##
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Nabeel Hyatt
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cc w/ @AvidanRoss @rishigarg & @teddyschleifer on this. First question feels like diagnosing why folks don’t give back as much in SF. Going theories:
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Nabeel Hyatt
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1) Angel investing replaces the social utilitarian value of giving in SF. 2) Age- the wealth is recent, the founders are young. 3) SF core is anti-establishment, builder mentality, so we don’t want the name on a gold plaque at the MET, we want to build our own solution. Others?
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Nabeel Hyatt
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.@ezraklein has an insight related to SF that sticks out w/ me reading the replies. He says the intellectual culture here is unlike other places, it’s venture-like in problem solving — “here are 20 ideas, 19 are quite wrong, not even a little wrong, 1 could change everything.”
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Nabeel Hyatt
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His point is that this thinking works well for startups maybe not so well for rebuilding/strengthening a society. It’s similar to this point by Sarah & Phil: twitter.com/philchacko/sta…
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Nabeel Hyatt
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But maybe there is a key there. New York uses status as a driver for giving (gala parties, names on plaques). But as @paulg says, different cities send different messages on how to be successful there. (paulgraham.com/cities.html)
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Nabeel Hyatt
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SF culture is not one of incremental status upgrades like NY. It is driven off big plans, the raw power to try and change the status quo even if chances are slim. It’s one of the reasons I think SB50 has gotten so much conversation.
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Nabeel Hyatt
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But civic projects here generally still crib the language and approaches of other cities. I’ve got brochures from DC and SF non profits with virtually the same language. Perhaps the approach just needs to be different.
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Be the change you want to see. Tell me what you care about most and I'll give you three great orgs that could use your time, sweat, and dollars.
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B Fathieh
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Girls education!
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Lauren Valdez
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Curious am I the only nonprofit, non tech person on this thread? Being on the side of trying to get donations from tech, I want to reframe the question from “why isn’t” (closing conversation) to “how can SV engage” (imaginative conversation).
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Em deGrandpre
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here as creative strategist, have not worked in nonprofit, little bit of tech tho. You raise a good point abt language here & how to ask good questions that lead to solution driven responses/answers. Much of the “how might/may we” comes from design thinking that attracts > deters
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