Soggar and Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.

I'm struggling with this in San Francisco because I can't actually figure out if we can fix it or not.

There are structural things here that are making it really hard to change and the machine is all on the other side.

And I might even convince at this point that tech people fully mobilized could do much.

There aren't that many tech people in the city to begin with, even before COVID, comparatively.

But then in the national context, I think it's an easier question to think about.

It's like America is slowly falling, let's say.

And I believe actually we are in a sort of rough state of decline in a lot of dimensions.

It gets really bad, do you stay in fight or do you leave?

And I personally believe that you stay in fight.

I think it's like this is my home, this is my country.

I'm going to stay in fight for it.

This week we're very excited to welcome Michael Solana to the podcast.

Mike is a vice president and founder's fund, which is a venture capital fund out of San Francisco.

He also writes the pirate wires newsletter on substack.

He is a great follow on Twitter as well.

He's basically been on martial knives radar for over a year.

He's always very aggressive online in fights around tech, the future of San Francisco, California, and more.

And we thought that we would have a great conversation, which is exactly what happened.

The constant theme of our more recent episode has been our idea that one of the biggest problems with media discourse,

with politics in general has been the fact that we've lost the local and our politics.

And Mike is interesting in that he's focused on San Francisco, the debates in the city around crime, housing, homelessness.

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