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People are too comfortable. Your life exists in a tech bubble where your biggest annoyances are the most trivial things (my Tesla panels don't line up, ios does
by kneel 6y ago
People are too comfortable. Your life exists in a tech bubble where your biggest annoyances are the most trivial things (my Tesla panels don't line up, ios does this annoying thing, someone said something rude on twitter)
Techies are so coddled that the very idea of interacting with a person with a wildly different background and communication styles is anxiety inducing, so they find a way around it.
The slights won't stop until you leave the comfort bubble, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
- atemerev 6y agoOh, it will happen, no worries. It happened before in 2001, when “tech” became a four-letter curse word. It will most definitely happen again.
- aspenmayer 6y agoAnd then blink and all tech products will be rebranded as lifestyle products overnight.
- jojobas 6y agoIf there was any commercial incentive to leave said bubble we'd see all sorts of activity to that end.
- JSavageOne 6y agoLet's not pretend like it's just the tech industry though, which is actually more meritocratic than most. For example when it comes to diversity and inclusiveness, high finance and management consulting make the tech industry look like a UN convention. They pretty much exclusively recruit at Ivy league equivalent schools, which are composed of an absurdly disproportionate amount of kids from wealthy backgrounds (any middle class kid who gets accepted to an Ivy probably got a substantial scholarship to their flagship state university).
- concordDance 6y ago> Techies are so coddled that the very idea of interacting with a person with a wildly different background and communication styles is anxiety inducing You're saying recruiting from different backgrounds (e.g. small town god fearing republican) could give my developers anxiety? Hmm... Guess I better avoid recruiting those sorts then.