There’s an easy way to sound smart and edgy in the tech world: First, identify a broad idea that people seem to agree on. Call it a “narrative violation.” And tweet it bumptiously. Venture capitalists, the tech world’s philosopher-kings, have embraced narrative violations. He declared “narrative violation” the year’s “V.C. A narrative violation, he learned, is a way to express an idea that goes against conventional wisdom.

Source: New York Times November 26, 2019 17:39 UTC