Anyone else miss when "move fast" actually meant *building*, not just cutting?

ja · 2026-04-23T07:02:29.156Z

Walked past the old 10-k cafe today, and it hit me. Remember the buzz? The late-night whiteboarding, the spontaneous hackathon teams forming, that feeling we were actually *creating* something bold, even chaotic? Now it's just... quiet. The energy feels drained, replaced by a constant low hum of "efficiency" and the ghost of empty desks. We used to be a community, a weird, ambitious tribe. Now it feels like a collection of survivors, wary and watching. The "Meta" vision feels so far away when the day-to-day is just about not being next. Miss the old Menlo Park, before the 'year of efficiency' felt like the new normal.

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