I LIVE a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a FACT that bubbles up into my consciousness EVERY time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly RESPONSIBLE for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
Read MoreWhen I got out of college in 1991, I had four JOBS in four DIFFERENT PARTS of L.A. There was I Love Juicy, a smoothie bar in Venice, and the Videotheque on Sunset Boulevard, across from the old Tower Records. I was also an INTERN at the 'Los Angeles READER' in the Miracle Mile and at 'High Performance' magazine downtown.
Read MoreI grew up in Los Angeles, and I was always fascinated by the La Brea Tar Pits. Right in the middle of the CITY, in an area called the MIRACLE MILE, for crying out LOUD, we have these eldritch ponds of dark, bubbling goo. And down in the muck, there're all these AMAZING fossils: mammoth and saber tooth cat and dire wolf.
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