> One difference (in this article at least) is that there are no jokes or unnecessary cultural references. As someone who started his professional career in the

> One difference (in this article at least) is that there are no jokes or unnecessary cultural references. As someone who started his professional career in the mid 90s, working in what we now call cyber security, and having written both then and after a long gap… now. I was initially baffled and then somewhat put-off by the way style has changed between say 2000 and 2010. First I put it down to just being older. Then I wondered if authors were encouraged to “put more of you” into writing (which I am not a fan of unless you are explicitly writing autobiographically). Part of “bring your whole self to work”? Then I wondered if it was just an attempt to add colour to what may be a rather dry subject for anyone other than those working in our niche. Finally I thought that perhaps it was something a little more profound. A desire by the author to connect at some deeper level than the dry content, with an audience, a tribe if you will.