I really wish the author would even once mention _how_ she was warping herself/her company to impress the tech crowd. It's hard for me to understand what she's

I really wish the author would even once mention _how_ she was warping herself/her company to impress the tech crowd. It's hard for me to understand what she's complaining about without a single example of the type of "how to be popular" advice that people were giving her that she found so poisonous...