I almost always find the most interesting people I work with aren't the ones who are "nerds for nerds sake". I was at CMU SCS, but the two best engineers I know

I almost always find the most interesting people I work with aren't the ones who are "nerds for nerds sake". I was at CMU SCS, but the two best engineers I know from undergrad studied Philosophy and Political Science. I've worked with some fantastic converted-lawyers over the years. Writing code is a skill, and it's as much writing as code. Different life experiences give you different advantages in applying a particular skill to a particular problem, and the inability to recognize that is your shortcoming. > I thought hacker & nerd culture would grow up and mature, instead it just got squashed out by the brogrammers. It got squashed by both ends. A friend of mine in school wrote an op/ed in the newspaper on how "Geek culture" and "Greek culture" were two sides of the same coin, and I can't help but notice how this repeats itself constantly.