> "the industry has self-selected for men: first, antisocial nerds, then, decades later, self-confident and risk-taking bros" I'm sorry, this is a silly broads

> "the industry has self-selected for men: first, antisocial nerds, then, decades later, self-confident and risk-taking bros" I'm sorry, this is a silly broadside at the nature of male software engineers. In my experience, software engineers tend to be smart, often but not always introverted, and in Silicon Valley, very ambitious. I think the quote captures an inherent contradiction in its own thesis: Are software engineers typically reclusive and antisocial, or outgoing and confident? The answer is... it depends, you'll find plenty of examples of both. We shouldn't blame the software engineers for _both_ their introversion and extroversion here, at the very least. :-)