This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley, about rationalism meetups, about starting one day too late for the IPO, about the feeling of finally debugging something that's been a recurring problem since before you started with the company... ?
You might have to accept allegorical instead of literal association—most often anyway (that's the case in any subject).
If you break what you're asking down into lower principles or themes, then poets have been writing about that throughout all of human history.
If you want to see beauty in the mundane, the raw heart of a person experience life as it comes to them, or illustrations of a soul battered by the torrent of the world around it, (which seems to me like what you've described) then you have an immense amount of artwork to draw on, and I'll name three of my favourites: Al Purdy, Milton Acorn, David McFadden.
You will be forced to associate with the writers on those themes in manners outside of the superficial aspects of your daily life, but that's more or less at the core of all art.
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> This being HN... where are the poets writing about Silicon Valley
See Vikram Seth's 1986 novel in verse The Golden Gate [0], which mentions a Silicon Valley in its relatively early years and even drops the terms RAM and ROM in the first lines.
Stanislaw Lem wrote a poem about computers within The Cyberiad. [1]
Gauloises
Smoke
Algorithms
a different type of thinking
Tonight mechanics of language ring
like bells or machinery
Or lust
after longing
Circuits cut on paper
Writ on paper
Walls of paper
carefully positioned
Nights and nights
Missing it missing you missing.
Time to close to end it
and/or just hit Enter
Smoke
Algorithms
Cigarettes
Return
