Funding your companies, advising your executives and politicians, building your products, and smack talking on HN. It is a funny question though. I might posit

Funding your companies, advising your executives and politicians, building your products, and smack talking on HN. It is a funny question though. I might posit that it's not a philosophy so much as a subculture that appreciates a certain flavour of writing. There's a form, like a prog-rock anthem or a minimalist piece, where writers ourselves tend to appreciate it, but where most people are just looking for something to dance to. If I could characterize most of the criticism I've read of rationalist writing, it would be that their main complaint is they can't dance to it.