I think programming is up there with the most important sorts of knowledge, like math and the hard sciences, history, and how to write. When you look at the world, you see more if you understand these things.
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Ask yourself why there is so much backlash against “tech bros” who seemingly lack empathy. It is a field with significant occupational hazard that will stunt you via “well, actually-izing” — you tend to become who you hang out with.
Startup founders have no less empathy than (to choose a random example) bakers. The high bit of why there is so much backlash is that they're successful. Empirically that's all you need to cause a backlash, unless the people in question are proactively self-effacing.
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The thing is that if you're a jerk and you're successful you tend to have more money so you're jerky behavior is more pronounced. If you're don't have much money you can do less damage. It's selection bias basically. Though I think I would need more data to be certain.
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You said "Put a lot of ambitious people in one place and they all make one another more ambitious." Guess what happens when you put a lot of pedantic people in one place? Or when they work with a pedant, the computer, all day?
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Is the opposite of “well actually” “can you just”?
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I do agree that success creates backlash though. "a computer in every pocket, always connected" kinda radically transformed the dynamics of computing.
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It is true that success by itself causes backlash, but I don't think it's a direct cause of it. Lack of empathy of a startup founder will typically have more impact than that of a baker because the former usually have more power because of their success.
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In other words an average person can hardly do anything big enough to receive significant amount of backlash. A successful founder on the other hand easily can because their actions have more impact and they are more visible to the public.
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