The National Post has a truly great graphic on the Mount Everest death toll (a chronicle of all of the lives claimed by the world’s tallest point). It is worth seeing to get a something of a sense of how deadly it is.

One thing that jumped out at me, though, was this pair of statistics: the number of summit ascents between 1953 and 1981 was only 117, while the number of ascents between 1982 and 2006 was 3058. That’s an incredible increase. I think it says something about the times we live in that so many people want to climb Everest.

Not yet. But according to this, For Tech Start-Ups, New York Has Increasing Allure – NYTimes.com, there are more and more startups taking off in NYC. While I can’t see the Valley fading away, I could see it having to compete for talent with NY. Whatever is said, where the work goes depends on where the talent is going to school and where the money is. I can’t see places like San Mateo or Palo Alto or Cupertino losing that for some time. However NYC has money and talent too. New York, and Brooklyn in particular, is hot again. The article doesn’t mention that, which is suprising, but if I were young I think Brooklyn could be the place to relocate to.

So yeah, not going to replace, but definitely going to compete.