Silicon Valley Compared to the World

I would say there’s one pattern that I see that is different, domestic in the US, particularly in the Silicon Valley, compared to the rest of the world. And then I would like to perhaps highlight some similarities. I think that there is more similarity than there is difference. The major thing that I think is different in Silicon Valley is because possibly, because of this emphasis on speed, we tend to, in business, be transaction oriented. We look at project at a time, one transaction at a time. If you look into Europe, look into Asia, people kind of have a longer time frame, and they emphasize more on relationship. And relationship, not only dealing with the people part, but even relation between two entities, even one as the supplier, and one as a procurer. A relationship in that sense, meaning a sequence of gives and takes in multiple transactions. So you don't push the guy to the limit every transaction, and declare that's a win. So I feel that there is generally more inclination in domestic market an operations to kind of look at one project: one transaction. So that's kind of the major difference. The similarity. You know, I have only had the privilege to work in the scientific community when I was in the research and academia environment, and in the high tech industry. So I can only speak in that narrow field. I say, people are crazy. They work incredibly hard, unreasonably hard, to the point sometimes that it causes physical pain. Why? I was always curious why. When I go to different places, they all do. It's not just in Silicon Valley. You go to Singapore, you go to Kobe, you go to Shanghai, different places. So I talked to engineers. I like to, after the normal work hours, you kind of just pick peoples' brains, have a beer and so on. I find that if I generalize why people work so hard--and of course, there are people who don't--and I'm talking about when I talk to people who work so crazy hard, I find that there are only three reasons, c...