What Kate saw in Silicon Valley
<i>9. What a solitary task startups are.</i><p>This is the hardest thing for me to explain to others.  And still one of the hardest for me to get used to myself.  It takes a lot of time working alone to get anything done.<p>It may also be one of the many reasons Hacker News is so popular.  I don't know about you guys, but if I didn't have this place to break up the loneliness, I'd probably go nuts.