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> Coming from having studied philosophy (at an elite school) and where most of my old classmates are lawyers now, it's kind of a bummer. As an aside, startup pe
by uxp100 9y ago
> Coming from having studied philosophy (at an elite school) and where most of my old classmates are lawyers now, it's kind of a bummer. As an aside, startup people/founders/investors tend to be much more eclectic, but tech, at the ground level, is an intellectual wasteland.
Now my eyes are rolling. It must be contagious. I'm sure the famously fascinating and well loved folks known as Lawyers will be better to work with.
- torstenvl 9y agoI know you were just trying to get in some cheap laughs by putting other people down, but being a lawyer has made my life much more fascinating. It's hard to imagine another profession that has as good a balance between intellectual depth (law is very much a technical skill) and intellectual breadth (a natural result of having to become conversant in whatever domain forms the context of the current dispute). Because of my job, I've learned so much about fields as diverse as Vitamin D testing and DNA identification to Sikh religious apparel to Hellfire missile post-launch abort procedures. So, I mean, you are of course entitled to laugh at the cliché of lawyers being boring suits. But the simple reality is that it's a deeply enriching field.
- uxp100 9y agoRead that quote. Philosophy at an elite school, all my former classmates are lawyers, intellectual wasteland. The cheap laughs already happened.
- dang 9y agoRegardless of how annoying another comment is, please don't post unsubstantive comments here and especially please don't do flamewars here. Your comment downthread breaks the site guidelines even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html