Pretentiousness and fluff of the post aside, there are some interesting points, like: businesses just want to be riskless rent collectors, so they do Whatever O

Pretentiousness and fluff of the post aside, there are some interesting points, like: businesses just want to be riskless rent collectors, so they do Whatever Other Businesses are Doing, which is a major contributor to the decline of this "hacker culture"; there's also this "neutering" aspect of today's conversations in your typical corporate environment, where you are only allowed to be "polite", "positive", and "constructive", even if the subject is barely worth talking about at all. Oh, and the thing about Authoritative Calm Professional Voice is spot-on. The opening, I'll concede, is fluff that could have been edited out, but there it is. There is also, for some reason, this subculture inhabiting HN which, if some project is not aiming to become the next multibillion unicorn, scale out hugely, dares not be a product, or someone open-sources his work without a particular desire to bring in a "team" or a "community", starts deriding and piling on the author, because in its opinion, such things (and maybe such people) simply should not exist. This subculture is a huge deterrent for anything tinkering-related that is not aiming at, you know, Changing the World or whatever it is these days.