Alternate Route to Silicon Valley

John Carstens
22 min readApr 11, 2018

A true account of going the distance to go to work.

Here I am in our young century’s center of global capitalism, grown from the orchards, where revenue and influence scale faster than Moore’s Law. If you come to Silicon Valley with pluck, talent, and an idea for an unmet need, you’ll be rewarded with the California Dream at its dreamiest.

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John Carstens

Writer of satire, personal essays, short stories, and the odd experiment. Creative director for Apple, DDB, TBWA\Chiat\Day, and other purveyors of persuasion.