> the fact that the author, who clearly does want to socialise, would benefit from doing something outside of their tech bubble

I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend. OK, maybe just one.

Most of my friends would agree with me and with article author. One of them goes further and doesn't even have a smartphone.

IME techies very rarely have these concerns.

So I'm not sure who is in a tech bubble between me and all those people in this thread saying how the logic is illegitimate because the author doesn't go out (which I guess is a "fact" because they all know him personally lol)

> I am not in SV and i don't have a single irl tech friend.

Then you are not at all like the author, who is specifically decrying the loss of tech-related avenues to meet people, and calls them out as his only ways of meeting people.

You've done some sort of mental back-flip by this point in the thread, and are ignoring what the author wrote about themselves and how they meet people.