I do wonder if the answer to this is more diversity in our engineers. Let me explain: While I have no doubt that a lot of great companies have awesome engineer

I do wonder if the answer to this is more diversity in our engineers. Let me explain: While I have no doubt that a lot of great companies have awesome engineers, SF/SV tech is filled with white men in their early twenties. Nothing wrong with that, but it seems like diversity in age, race and ethnicity is a token that plays second fiddle to "meritocracy". The latter really at the end comes down to whether you wear an ironic hoodie, can solve a graph algorithm problem well and can work long hours through the night. Nothing wrong with all of those, I have done those and been a good mimic. But, the more I think about it, the more I think that it creates an echo chamber where there is only one true way of designing and building products. The ones that that clique can use. Sometimes, I belong to that clique with things like Hipmunk that I love to use. Sometimes, I am confused as fuck say when it comes to Unix commands. I wonder how many many many users we are missing out because of our focus on building and designing things that are focused towards the needs of the few.