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> If yours is anything like mine, the people around you play Ultimate Frisbee, rock climb, "hike", do photography, and are "foodies" Hahaha. I can spot a "tech

> If yours is anything like mine, the people around you play Ultimate Frisbee, rock climb, "hike", do photography, and are "foodies" Hahaha. I can spot a "tech worker" (not even just developer—manager, sales, whatever) hiker at half a kilometer (yeah there are plenty I don't spot, but there's definitely a "look" that exists in clothing and affect and is fairly common and non-tech-workers do not have it). If you tasked me with finding as many people as I could with rock climbing gym memberships but I wasn't allowed to go to such a gym to do it, I'd hit the coffee shops in our "startupy" district around lunch time on a weekday (well, not right now, but you get the idea). But I've been told I'm being ridiculous and that these activities don't have a class component to them because quite a few participants aren't involved in software companies or software development. Well yeah, but something doesn't have to be absolute to be a noticeable trend. Lacrosse, crew, skiing, squash—not technically limited to a certain social class but I bet you'd find some class-related trends among their participants, especially people who do or have done two or more of those activities with any frequency. We like what we like in no small part they're the "right" things to like, among "our" people.

sfink 6y ago
Heh. I have a lousy sense of direction. Once I was in the middle of San Francisco, utterly lost (this was in the days before ubiquitous cell phone maps), trying to make my way to a tech developer conference. I tried and failed to use a paper map. I tried asking people for directions and failed to understand or follow them. Eventually I gave up and just looked at the people around me. Then I moved backwards along the techie gradient, which took me straight there on the shortest possible path. (No lanyards at the time, either. Or I was new enough at the game to not know to look for them? I don't recall.)

sfink 6y ago

Heh. I have a lousy sense of direction. Once I was in the middle of San Francisco, utterly lost (this was in the days before ubiquitous cell phone maps), trying to make my way to a tech developer conference. I tried and failed to use a paper map. I tried asking people for directions and failed to understand or follow them. Eventually I gave up and just looked at the people around me. Then I moved backwards along the techie gradient, which took me straight there on the shortest possible path. (No lanyards at the time, either. Or I was new enough at the game to not know to look for them? I don't recall.)