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This is a really interesting topic, but I feel like it's ok to say "we don't know". The highlighted claim

"Advanced aliens really are out there, and we have enough data to say roughly where they are in space and time, and when we will see or meet them."

is not proven. It's just some really smart people attempting to reach a conclusion I'm not sure is within reach. We just don't know.

This post really shows how much luck/privilege it takes to have a chance at success. Stanford, intern at LinkedIn, being able to just "drop by" in Palo Alto. "Silicon Valley is about People" and it takes a lot of money to get access to those people. The fall of Silicon Valley will be when anyone with the right idea and the ability to build it is able to get funding to actually build it.

We do something very similar to this where I work. Week 1 is not a vacation for us. Each developer has work assigned for the cycle but it might be high level or vague. We spend the first week designing the feature and nailing down requirements. We also do allow very important stuff to get added to the cycle. We have very brief standups at the begging of each week, but we also communicate throughout the cycle over slack.

It works very well for us as a small team of five developers.

I Miss Rails 7 years ago

We use Rails with the GraphQL gem and React/Apollo on the front end. Works great!