A tech billionaire, a beach and a dog who can't read signs
#458: What a small, brown act of civil disobedience tells us about how tech's power and a growing wealth imbalance is hurting the things we love...
"A few weeks ago I went for a hike and, entirely by accident, passed a man on a public trail who owns a private beach. One he's spent the better part of two decades, and a great deal of money, trying to keep the rest of us off of. I couldn't quite let it go. So a week later Paco and I drove down to see the beach for ourselves.
This is the result — my second piece for Ricky Sutton's Future Media, and my thanks to Ricky for the room to tell it. If you found your way here after the Don't Be Evil essay, welcome. And if you've been along since Paco and I first backed out of the driveway, you already know how he feels about a good session of fetch."
A month ago, a Silicon Valley insider reached out to me after 30 years inside California’s magic-money-making-bubble. He wanted to share.
That newsletter - Don’t Be Evil was always too low a bar - has become one of my most talked about guest posts.
He wrote about his 8,000-mile drive across America with his dog Paco meeting people and putting faces to the…
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