Founder mode, hackers, and being bored by tech
I’ve been thinking about this as I look for a job: why do I feel so repulsed by the idea of writing software for a living? Have I changed? Probably, but it’s also the case that the industry has exactly zero things in common with what it was back when I started.
In allowing and encouraging the likes of Graham to define what tech looks like, we have made tech look boring, unless you are the kind of teenage who dreams of getting rich quick by starting a company, riding a hype cycle, and flipping it to some sucker for a few hundred million.