There are things I have in common with techbros. I don't have the same brainworms - the experience of having both of my parents lose their jobs to tech (to automation and what the internet did to newspapers, respectively), and for about 10 years being really fucking poor and on the edge of homelessness at all times with none of the standard trust-fund-kid daddy money to save me, substantially grounds me in the reality of things.
BUT
My god I am a sucker for cheesy bass-heavy dancy EDM.
bottom-of-the-barrel youtube video with an anime girl pointing guns at the camera album art type trash that I love, I live in this trashcan, I am possummode for eating this trash, yesss
Most of you might not have been around actual Silicon Valley guys enough to know this, but hardstyle and dubstep and electro and such are A Thing in those circles. This might have something to do with Burning Man and that culture's relation to Burning Man, I don't know. Writing code while listening to this shit makes it really fun and easy to get into a flow state for me, maybe it's that way for a lot of people?
(The other thing I've got in common with them is reading sci-fi novels and having a maybe-unrealistic intuition about how much they apply to real life, but this is modulated by the grounding of the class shit and so it more takes the shape of "what if anarcho-syndicalist cyberpunks had a pirate gene therapy clinic" and stuff like that)
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