A myopic perspective on the world has long characterized the tech industry, but success has amplified it. Age and wealth often inhibit contact with people whose lives and careers have unfolded in fundamentally different ways. When great fortune befalls an individual, they might ask themselves some lonely nights: "Do I really deserve all this?" But when a group collectively rushes from success to success, when truly extraordinary success has become the norm by the age of twenty-five, thirty, or thirty-five, and you are forced to then age alongside one another for decades, each constantly aware that your peak lies ever further in the past, then it helps when fellow travelers constantly reassure you that you are still relevant, that the gnawing feeling of irrelevance is, in truth, the fault of others. A concept like "vibes" allows them to understand their aging process, and the alienation that inevitably accompanies it, as identical to the course of the world.