Tech people should really spend some time reading up on history, even if it's just very tech-relevant history like engineering disasters such as the Therac-25.

Tech people should really spend some time reading up on history, even if it's just very tech-relevant history like engineering disasters such as the Therac-25. Even origin stories are important: techno-libertarianism is absolutely baffling, as Silicon Valley and Internet were seeded by massive government/military spending. Know where you came from. Apply lessons from the past.