The history of

San Francisco

is interesting because before the tech... it was always about being weird and doing cool shit.

it just happened that one day tech became that.

now of course tech is more blue chip and less cool shit lol.

> we don’t need some grandiose, world-changing, life-changing vision to justify our interests. 

I've come to live more closely to that 

Navalism

that life is a single player game. That there is no 'world' but rather worlds that are inhabited within each mind of each person.

So in such case... our interests is world changing!