Katherine Boyle

And it was also, I don't know, I was probably so dejected.

I didn't have that many mentors, right?

I didn't have people who were like, oh, well, you should go this path or you should do this or talk to this person.

It was more like, okay, they rejected me.

Like, there must be a reason.

And maybe I'm supposed to be doing something else.

So I mean, Silicon Valley was more of, okay, the biggest story that I'm writing about.

You see patterns in the stories you write, and the stories you write every day sort of tell the story of the country, of the ethos.

I was actually a culture writer too, so I would write, I had a really broad swath of things I could write about, but a lot of things I was writing about were

you know, how technology is impacting this industry or how technology is destroying another industry.

And just the conversation at the Washington Post day in, day out was, we're all going to lose our jobs because, you know, Facebook is gaining momentum and everyone wants to read their news on Facebook.

Like, there's no business model.

And so there was something I really want to, like, to me, this is the biggest story of my life.

Like, tech is the biggest story.

I don't understand it.

And a lot of the Washington Post people I worked with, they hated tech, right?

Like, tech is what's destroying their livelihood, and they have every right to hate it.

But me, I was like, I want to understand it.

Like, I want to go out here and understand this culture.

Like, I don't know nothing about it.