If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
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#2He lost so much respect during the X internship that I take most of his writing as parody now. He is really funny.
Re: If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
#3Two quick thoughts on this:
1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job.
2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? The vast majority of fields and industries are treated like a day job to pay the bills (even some incredibly prestigious/high paying ones like law and medicine), but there seems to be the assumption that this isn't true of the tech industry.
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#4From another tweet below this one:
> The reason all these people have “turned on tech” is because it’s making everything dirt cheap. Similar to housing, there’s a cabal of evil people who want things to stay expensive.
These people: "Tech is exacerbating wealth inequality, making our kids depressed, polarizing our society, and making it harder for me to pay attention to the things I really care about"
Geohotz: "There's a cabal of evil people who want things to stay expensive."
I was considering a watered down, poking-fun version of Geohotz' perspective but I couldn't come up with anything goofier than the actual words he said. So I'll add to the valid complaints about tech: Systemic and profound lack of self-awareness among its cheerleaders.
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#5From another tweet below this one: > The reason all these people have “turned on tech” is because it’s making everything dirt cheap. Similar to housing, there’s a cabal of evil people who want things to stay expensive. These people: "Tech is exacerbating wealth inequality, making our kids depressed, polarizing our society, and making it harder for me to pay attention to the things I really care about" Geohotz: "There…
You ever meet people at parties or other social situations that tell you they hate tech guys? This is who they’re thinking about.
Re: If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
#6Two quick thoughts on this: 1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job. 2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? The vast majority of fields and industries are treated like a day job to pay the bills (even some incredibl…
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Re: If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
#7Two quick thoughts on this: 1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job. 2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? The vast majority of fields and industries are treated like a day job to pay the bills (even some incredibl…
Tech is everywhere these days. This is a silly take from geohot. Do I really have to live, laugh, love tech to work at an insurance company on their internal tooling or something? Even most FAANG jobs are about working on some mind numbingly boring business problems
Re: If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
#8Two quick thoughts on this: 1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job. 2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? The vast majority of fields and industries are treated like a day job to pay the bills (even some incredibl…
Agree on 1.
Disagree on 2. I think with high pay comes higher requirement to be dedicated. I am sure they exist like all things but most of the well payed law and medical roles all work long hours and require continued education. The jobs that don’t have this, often do not have the same level of comp.
Re: If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
#9Two quick thoughts on this: 1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job. 2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? The vast majority of fields and industries are treated like a day job to pay the bills (even some incredibl…
Agree on 1. Disagree on 2. I think with high pay comes higher requirement to be dedicated. I am sure they exist like all things but most of the well payed law and medical roles all work long hours and require continued education. The jobs that don’t have this, often do not have the same level of comp.
When doctors and lawyers work long hours, they bill for those hours.
Re: If you don't genuinely love tech, don't work in tech
#10Two quick thoughts on this: 1. Working on tech is a pretty good way to kill whatever love of tech you might have. As the old adage goes, if you want to enjoy something, don't make it your day job. 2. Why does tech often end up being the field where people think everyone working there needs to be obssessed with? The vast majority of fields and industries are treated like a day job to pay the bills (even some incredibl…
3. The history of Tech is people from other fields, usually career drop outs, deciding they could have a more comfortable life if they gave up their passion and did something easy with insufficient history to have its own academic standards.