Not everyone in tech is condescending or rude. Let's not generalize things here. I know plenty of people who are happy to explain things and don't go down that

Not everyone in tech is condescending or rude. Let's not generalize things here. I know plenty of people who are happy to explain things and don't go down that route of being an ass because someone else is not grasping an idea. Also, sometimes people are just in a bad mood. Happens even to the most compassionate people. I feel that this is a cultural problem that has to do less with tech and more with people in general. It's like that first time you go to NYC and someone treats you like shit when buying a coffee or something. First, you are dumbfounded, then you're kind of start to realize that's how everyone there behaves, finally, you stop caring. As much as I would love to change behavior and be treated more warmly, I also understand the nature of their cold behavior so I'm not gonna judge it. ... Yes, I dislike the condescending nature of communities like StackOverflow but at some point, you have to ignore it and try to get only the good stuff from it without focusing on the tone. If you let an asshole demoralize you, it's going to be very hard to move forward in any job, not only tech. I'm all down for creating more compassionate and warm interactions in this industry, and I really hope more initiatives around this keep coming up since it will make people more aware of how they treat others. But this is not gonna change the fact that there are a lot of assholes out there and it's just easier to learn how to filter out the rudeness than trying to change their behavior which is probably more deeply enrooted into them that the very topic that they are trying to explain.