The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis

It's understandable why the guys who had big tech startup successes in the 90s and early aughts think that "DEI" is the cause of all their problems. Not understandable in the "gotta hand it to em" sense, but in the sense that it's not hard to follow the stupid mistake they all make. I didn't see any of this unfold, but I think I've pretty much seen it. 2005, old dorm room with mold on the walls, the birds start to chirp their alarm to the fact that you're up way too late. I can't argue with anyone who wants to say the place exudes "a masculine energy," or at least a masculine smell. I'm here because programming was the only career path for which, in the limited vision of my youth, I could already see and understand exactly what I'd be doing, and that there was very little I would need from anyone else to get there. I'd be very suprised if Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, and James Damore don't know, and to this day yearn to recreate, the sensations I'm describing. They never find it ... Read full article.