I'm kind of shocked at the amount of people here saying something like "all of tech is just finding ways to get people to click more ads". I mean yes, that's a

I'm kind of shocked at the amount of people here saying something like "all of tech is just finding ways to get people to click more ads". I mean yes, that's a part of our industry, and because of the dominance of Google and Facebook it's a pretty big part. But that's still a drop in the ocean compared to all of the other tech out there! Literally every system you can think of, both good and bad, had to have someone build it. Systems for managing schools? Someone built those. Systems for managing your local restaurant? Someone built those. Systems for internally managing some niche organization no one's ever heard of? Yep, someone built those too. Those kinds of things are numerous, and super important.