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Age, comes experience. But, I was surprised that techbro has such a negative image too and used as an attack. Only found that out when I moved to Seattle. Some

Age, comes experience. But, I was surprised that techbro has such a negative image too and used as an attack. Only found that out when I moved to Seattle. Sometimes it helps to adapt it, because for sure the community/locals on some level really do push it to a label. Meanwhile, across the country in Florida - everyone encourages everyone to do what you want, learn, succeed and it wasn't rare that in university, outside university events IT/coders/artists and such all hung out together. But, certain environments affect the meaning and acceptance of words. I still am flabbergasted that my experience in Seattle is still like that and that I was "shamed" for doing what I love. Seattle was the only place also that people in tech would also omit they work in tech and do anything, everything else.

beaconstudios 5y ago
There's a subset of ideas and culture associated with "techbro" beyond just being interested in technology. Obnoxiously Libertarian, overly analytical (lack of holistic perspective), crypto pumping, sometimes pretty racist/sexist (though I would say that's a subset). It's a particular cultural strain of people interested in software, not all young men who code. These people were "finance bros" working in hedge funds before the VC/startup industry took off, and crypto became the most popular way to scam people. Edit: actually the "overly analytical" might fall more into the stemlord category, who routinely get mislabelled as techbros.
- rootsudo 5y ago
  So much work to keep up with the labels, I just do what I enjoy and so do many other people. It's sad that people just acost and label it as some sort of "bro" label and try to make it negative.
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    I don't think anybody "keeps up with labels" as such, and it's not about people doing what they enjoy - it's about certain abrasive personality types that are drawn to programming.

beaconstudios 5y ago

There's a subset of ideas and culture associated with "techbro" beyond just being interested in technology. Obnoxiously Libertarian, overly analytical (lack of holistic perspective), crypto pumping, sometimes pretty racist/sexist (though I would say that's a subset). It's a particular cultural strain of people interested in software, not all young men who code. These people were "finance bros" working in hedge funds before the VC/startup industry took off, and crypto became the most popular way to scam people. Edit: actually the "overly analytical" might fall more into the stemlord category, who routinely get mislabelled as techbros.

rootsudo 5y ago
So much work to keep up with the labels, I just do what I enjoy and so do many other people. It's sad that people just acost and label it as some sort of "bro" label and try to make it negative.
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  I don't think anybody "keeps up with labels" as such, and it's not about people doing what they enjoy - it's about certain abrasive personality types that are drawn to programming.