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Geoff says the traditional relationship between parents and children have shifted over time; the dad is more engaged now. The overall life is more demonstrative than it was back when he grew up. The main challenge for today’s parents have shifted. Back in the day, the main challenge was TV. Now, isolation with new media is a challenge for the whole family. You used to walk around and say hello to people, but now everyone is heads down into their devices. The greatest challenge of our time might be to balance time spent in the cyberspace and the real world.

Indie Hackers is a business run by two brothers, Courtland and Channing Allen. It's a community for entrepreneurs and digital business owners to connect and to learn.

Today he spends much of his time on people. With business development relationships, with recruiting for his company, and with providing his employees the resources needed to work better together.

Tim O'Reilly adopted this phrase from Alvin E. Roth's book, Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design.

We used to think that the free market got to determine who gets what and why, but nowadays algorithms do a lot of deciding instead. Even markets are now mostly designed by somebody, like Google or Facebook, and the political battles are now about having controls over the rules for those markets.

You can read more about this in Tim's new book, WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us .

The first crash and what we are going through today does not sound alike. Amazing things are being built right now with a lot more utility than companies that were selling and going public in the 90s. When you are in the bubble though, it does not feel crazy. That said, San Francisco DNA of a beautiful hippy city is gone.

Christopher Michel is a success photographer who had made several career transitions in his life, going from the Navy, to work at Pentagon, to then living the life of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, only to change it all again and to become a photographer, with the goal to make a difference by taking pictures that people would love and remember.

Christopher Michel has been all over the world, taking pictures from Antarctica to the edge of space. He has an open mind, and an approach which has enabled him to make money from photography, while still enjoying the craft, in a time when many photographers are struggling with their future.

Creatives are a close community and most of the time people want to help and to support each other.

Based in San Francisco, Katie Dill is the VP of the design team at Lyft. Her team is a part of almost everything that Lyft creates to build a product that is reliably great and enjoyable to use. She learned design later in life, and her expertise evolved as she worked with companies and brands. She previously worked at Airbnb before she joined Lyft about a year ago.

Artists who do no have money do not try to imitate wealth. Instead, they live in a way that is cheap, but not squalid.

Much the same, startups should not try to imitate rich habits of large companies, and should just focus on making their software really good.

Most entrepreneurs don't seem to have money as their primary motivator. Money is just the means of keeping the business moving. What they really want is to make a mark on the world.

The unintended consequences of actions at scale can be massive, and we should definitely take time to understand them.