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Ohhhhhh. It just clicked for me that indoor climbing is from silicon valley and that's why the Venn diagram of tech bros and crag dirtbags overlays so much. I a

• drahazar 2y ago
  > I always assumed there was just something about the type of people who work in tech that they're weirdly more into climbing than average. You were right the first time. Climbing is a largely constrained problem solving exercise with binary outcomes (you either did the route or didn't) and a built-in level-up style progression in the grading system. (Today I did my fist V2! etc...) You can do it entirely on your own, at your own time, in your own pace and it's not really possible to "lose" at climbing[1], you get unlimited attempts to try and figure it out. You can, for outdoor climbs, try the climb, fail, train for 6 months and retry the climb to succeed. In short it's almost designed to be addictive to coder types, but all that came before the indoor walls, not after. Source: I climb obsessively. They got me good. [1] - competition climbing aside, obviously
  • normie3000 2y ago
    > competition climbing aside, obviously You can add free soloing to the list as well.