What makes silicon valley tick

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USA , Trade Paperback 5. Mms - an Easy Cure by L. Koehof , Trade Paperback 5. Accenture's research found that IT professionals in Silicon Valley are simultaneously:. If these factors seem laughably contradictory, that was the same reaction Jeanne Harris , the report's lead author, had when she saw the findings. But how people here have resolved these conflicting factors is part of what makes the Valley culture special.

They are less interested in technologies per se than in playing with established ways of doing things and conventional ways of thinking, creating, learning, and being. Silicon Valley is rife with gatherings and places for doing this. On a Sunday you may spot some of the tech and not so tech-savvy denizens at a Brunchy Sunday series, where they come together to write and share their creations — blog posts, a song, a pitch, a chapter of a book, a screenplay, or anything else.

You can drop in on a Science Hack Day, a hour hackathon that brings together scientists and passionate amateurs to engage in any serious or whimsical undertaking the two often blur that has to do with science. Many of these examples are described in my book, The Nature of the Future. Socialstructers engage in hard work that they choose for themselves and to which they bring the best of their talents and abilities.

Without management hierarchies, without titles and assignments, they do things such as self-organize into teams for 48 hours during a Science Hack Day pictured right and produce over a dozen new things, ranging from software code that converts data from nuclear accelerators into music to a robot that analyzes twitter sentiments.