The vibe shift in Silicon Valley
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Last month, Allison P. Davis wrote a widely read article in New York titled A Vibe Shift Is Coming." In it, she posited that the third year of our pandemic would reveal an obvious, and perhaps wrenching, evolution of the culture. A vibe shift, she wrote, is a relatively simple idea: In the culture, sometimes things change, and a once-dominant social wavelength starts to feel dated."
I have been thinking about Davis' piece more or less ever since. In particular, I've been working on how to apply it to my chosen field: tech journalism, which is driven as much by social wavelengths as any other part of our culture. For some time, I had been attempting to work out which stories felt relevant in 2022 that may not have in, say, 2020. Today,...