>There's a way out of the looking-the-part problem. Cultivate an image of an eccentric genius Yeah, this is what I was talking about with our industry being di

>There's a way out of the looking-the-part problem. Cultivate an image of an eccentric genius Yeah, this is what I was talking about with our industry being different. This is... common for programmers. You don't even have to be uncommonly good, just useful. But I think this is dramatically harder in other industries; to the point where I've never met, say, a real-estate agent like that, or a lawyer.