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>So why in tech do we have such a fetish about teenage hackers? Same reason it happens for teenage artists, musicians, etc. It's possible, and where there's a
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
>So why in tech do we have such a fetish about teenage hackers?
Same reason it happens for teenage artists, musicians, etc. It's possible, and where there's a possibility, you can bet there will be a bunch of profiteers and elitists trying to push it as the new normal.
You can bet your sweet dollars if it was possible to do so as surgeons (by changing the culture and opening up possibilities), the same would happen there.
Of course, it also completely discredits that people can become amazing at something starting from nothing in old age.
- ddarden 4y agoThere does seem to be two different mindsets. In most cases everyone has a combination of both of them. The first is the “shakedown” mindset. This is where you are in a situation where you have to try very quickly to figure out what level a person is at so that you can figure out how much info to give them or how to communicate. Some people take the shakedown mindset to an extreme and use it almost exclusively. They tend to by hyper-competitive. Then you have the collaborative mindset. This is where a person is in a more naturally open mindset and they more readily assume that everyone around them are contributors, people they can learn from, non-threatening, etc. The prevailing mindset on HN is probably collaborative. One common misconception, is that what would benefit the group is less shakedown and more collaborative. But that isn’t always true. It is possible that we should teach shakedown skills. How to perform shakedown in a positive way. A way that would naturally lead to the collaborative process. Truly everyone has something to contribute but contribution has to be delivered at the correct collaborative level to be effective.