Guest Thinkers — December 12, 2010

You know you’re from San Francisco when…

An very funny Yelp post (maybe you know you’re a SFian when you blog Yelp posts).

My personal favorite, and one I’m guilty of. When you start a new company that sells useless software services to people who don’t want it and when people ask you what you want to achieve in life you say, simply, world domination.

When you know what the next great revolution is in human consciousness is and it’s something like push technology or info security or social networking.

BTW, I’m so gonna be the one to succeed in WorDom. Why you ask? Three reasons really,

1. I know the next great revolution in human consciousness

2. I am in shape from climbing hills

3. Because I’m from San Francisco and have the mind of a champ.

Rock on!

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