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It’s because the author isn’t an independent, rational thinker and still hasn’t realized that. You aren’t a slave to your current social setting. For instance,

• macspoofing 6y ago
  That was partly the point he was making. When selecting a sport, he immediately gravitated to sports that are popular with tech people (i.e. ultimate, rock-climbing).
  • babesh 6y ago
    Because he or she wasn’t thinking rationally. He or she was just using their sheep brain.
    • sushid 6y ago
      You’re the one thinking irrationally. You’re completing missing the poster’s point.
      • babesh 6y ago
        No. I know the poster’s point. It’s argued badly. The poster is trying to argue that tech is a monoculture using their perspective as a lens. The author instead looks like a sheep and doesn’t notice all the other tech that are not like them. The real problem is lack of rationality.
      • babesh 6y ago
        The author’s point is a chain of shit thinking.
  • kochthesecond 6y ago
    Well, shit. I just started rock climbing. Like half the other tech workers in my city.
    • babesh 6y ago
      Who said try one?
    • dilyevsky 6y ago
      When you actually go out and climb rock/snow/ice (as opposed to plastic) number of tech folks falls dramatically (although still non zero)
      • tick_tock_tick 6y ago
        Depends how far you're going Castle Rock, the few climbs in the Berkeley hills, or even the Mt Diablo area is full of of tech folks (myself included).
    • rbg246 6y ago
      I was going to say I rock climb in Victoria, Australia but I've never met anyone in tech!
• roflc0ptic 6y ago
  “The author doesn’t realize that football... is dangerous.” You really missed his meaning when he said “I don’t like traumatic brain injuries.” What he meant was that he had no interest in playing football because it’s dangerous.
  • wakawaka1 6y ago
    Haha. Yes, but there is football... and then there’s futbol (ie soccer).
  • babesh 6y ago
    Flag football is non contact. Just like ultimate that the author was considering.
  • babesh 6y ago
    Contact football even if restricted to people 150lb and below is STILL dangerous. It’s not the weight disparity which is partly how I read that. It’s that the force that even 120lb people generate is enough to cause concussions amongst people the same weight. After college a bunch of lightweight kids from high school would get together and play football. Two straight meetings ending in concussions ended that. We were virtually all less than 150lb.
    • AtHeartEngineer 6y ago
      I think you are missing their point
    • strken 6y ago
      The 150lb thing was pretty clearly because he thought his weight would be a disadvantage. Like saying he wouldn't play basketball because he was 5'4" and had a bad knee, the weight and the danger weren't related to each other, they were different factors in the final decision not to play.
      • babesh 6y ago
        If that is the case, that just shows that the author is on very tall stack of misconceptions. No one plays full contact football recreationally. It’s completely too dangerous. People mostly play flag football. Also most sports have leagues grouped by size or ability. The author dismissed the sport out of hand with wrong information.
• postsantum 6y ago
  It's possible to be independent and rational and still come to the same conclusion. Have I had a need to choose a sport without keeping that diversity question in mind, I'll probably have ended up with ultimate anyway. Cheap, safe, fun, team spirit - it checks all the boxes for a pragmatic mind
  • babesh 6y ago
    Yes but the thinking process as expressed in the article did not show evidence of that. It showed weakness in reasoning and narrowness of thought.
• zanellato19 6y ago
  I can't believe this comment is not sarcasm HAHA