---
title: "My Silicon Valley Fortune Cookie"
date: 2005-11-18
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2005"
    url: "/tag/2005.md"
---

# My Silicon Valley Fortune Cookie

While pondering my [Midblog Crisis](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002943.php), I remembered a fortune cookie I received during the [spicy noodles dinner](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002885.php) in Palo Alto on 12 October (when I was in the US for the Web 2.0 Conference). Present at the meal were [Dave Winer](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://scripting.com/), [Mike Arrington](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://www.techcrunch.com/), [Fred Oliveira](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://webreakstuff.com/), [Gabe Rivera](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://blog.memeorandum.com/) and myself. At the end of the delicious meal, we all got a fortune cookie. Here’s what mine said:

**“Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril.”**

I thought it was quite appropriate then – and especially so now given [my post yesterday](https://web.archive.org/web/20051214032334/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/002943.php) about re-focusing my blog. btw thanks to the people who left encouraging comments on that post!

From left to right: Gabe, Dave, me, Mike, Fred

I miss Silicon Valley. But at least my blog is in the right place.

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/my_silicon_vall.php))*