Right now, I am reading a bit about how modern computers are designed to interfere with our thinking, and some of the skills of the earlier generation that Searls is talking about like "tireless" and "tenacious" could easily be the same as the hyperfocus of people with attention deficit issues. What is it going to look like when those folks are properly medicated?
The original drive for money in the industry was all the start-up nonsense. Did you feel like women were leaving before that? To me, it felt like that was when folks started looking for rockstars and ninjas. The folks involved were not necessarily good at programming, even though they like to create programming related origin stories. They just had to be good at sweet talking venture capitalists.
I graduated in the dot com boom to bust, so I did not know of a time before it.
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Date: 2023-07-16 01:14 pm (UTC)The original drive for money in the industry was all the start-up nonsense. Did you feel like women were leaving before that? To me, it felt like that was when folks started looking for rockstars and ninjas. The folks involved were not necessarily good at programming, even though they like to create programming related origin stories. They just had to be good at sweet talking venture capitalists.
I graduated in the dot com boom to bust, so I did not know of a time before it.