I've been attending Hamilton Society debates for the last few months, and they've easily become one of my favorite events in SF. SF is full of smart people. But it often feels like an echo chamber, people just repeating what they read on twitter with no strong opinions of their own. These people are building the future! They're creating the technology everyone will use, and they're getting all their ideas from the same Twitter threads? That's insane. People need space to think for themselves. To get out of their comfort zones and argue with their friends.