<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[&#8220;An Uncluttered Life&#8221;,&nbsp;Ctd]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[The one thing Harry Reasoner got right in his diatribe against hippies was the work ethic that blossomed in San Francisco in the sixties, the tendency to &quot;approach work the way the rest of us do sport.&quot; That attitude, about which Reasoner was so dismissive, shaped the cultures of technology and philanthropy and even influenced investing in Silicon Valley and beyond. </p><p>  John Markoff chronicled the connection between computing and the &quot;counterculture&quot; in his 2005 book, What The Dormouse Said. Markhoff revealed what everyone in the Valley has always known, that the counterculture was not limited to runaway kids dancing and screwing in the park. The researchers at SRI and other research facilities in the area were getting high and fighting the status quo. They sent their kids to the famous Peninsula School in Menlo Park by day and went back in the evening for meetings of the HomeBrew club where they discussed how the computer would be a tool for personal and communal transformation. ]]></html><thumbnail_url><![CDATA[https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/6a00d83451c45669e20133ee519eff970b-550wi.jpg?fit=440%2C330]]></thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width><![CDATA[440]]></thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height><![CDATA[292]]></thumbnail_height></oembed>