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In all seriousness, I think if anyone took a large, systematic look at the nature of productivity gains in the Valley, they would see that the same patterns underlie their gains just like everyone else's -- Very smart people in an extremely competitive environment where many people are connected to other important thoughts and thinkers and of course using high powered ergogenic stimulants ranging from the popular and relatively innocuous coding sessions aids Adderall and Modafinil all the way to finishing months worth of a normal man's work in days with Methamphetamine (or solving deep problems in virtually every branch of mathematics and finishing it off with a Wolf Prize :)


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