I'm a writer who left LA for an AI startup in San Francisco. It was like stepping into a whole new world.

Erika Lee and her mom in front of the Golden Gate Bridge. Courtesy of Erika Lee Moving to San Francisco from LA was life-changing for Erika Lee, a journalist. She said San Francisco, where products and ideas are currency, had a different value system to LA. Lee feels she's getting an insider's view of how AI is transforming the world. I moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco because of a cold DM on X. I grew up in the LA suburbs, and after attending college there I built my career in jour...