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> referencing his time at Dropbox when people would “fly around the office on these stupid scooters and skateboards” Why are techies being shamed because they’
by brad0 9y ago
> referencing his time at Dropbox when people would “fly around the office on these stupid scooters and skateboards”
Why are techies being shamed because they’ve worked hard and spent it on something they like?
This is why tech has a diversity problem. It’s not the inner culture. It’s the outer culture and the shame attached to it.
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I don’t own one of those skateboards/scooters but I do appreciate working in a culture where people similar to me finally feel comfortable to be themselves without judgement.
I feel that the people quoted in this article are a bit too manipulated by other’s opinions.
In the end you have to ask yourself: are you happy doing the work here? If not, then change. But if you yourself are happy and you leave because of the media’s opinion then you’re setting yourself up for a miserable life.
- tomjen3 9y agoWhy are techies being shamed because they’ve worked hard and spent it on something they like? Cause the powers that used to be (newspapers, the established parties) are scared. More and more power is in the hands of the tech industry and it is reasonably popular (last numbers I read was that google had 88% approval, whereas the approval of congress compared disfavourably with AIDS). Tech was the wunderkind and underdog in the 90ies, mostly harmless and a producer of shiny toys. Tech now has some amount of power, but because we are still outsiders we get stupid articles like that. My hope is that google figures out how to run an AI newspaper (so the articles can be made free) and use it to remove the rest of the power from the incumbents because they do too much damage to us.