Man, I just totally disagree with all of that. I wrote medical software for most of my career, except for a brief stint as a pre-med student, and the level of n

Man, I just totally disagree with all of that. I wrote medical software for most of my career, except for a brief stint as a pre-med student, and the level of narcissism I found in medical doctors far exceeded anything I came across in technical circles (not counting some percentage of founders). My girlfriend is in academia, and a similar trend prevails there. Contrast this with wanton disdain for credentials in much of the tech community coupled with a great deal of willingness to help each other out. Maybe I'm just blessed to live in a town like Austin, but this industry is anything but cutthroat on technical merits.