{"id":179739,"date":"2017-11-11T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/11\/about-fing-time-26\/"},"modified":"2017-11-11T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:17:00","slug":"about-fing-time-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/11\/about-fing-time-26\/","title":{"rendered":"About F%$#ing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It appears that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/nov\/08\/ashamed-to-work-in-silicon-valley-how-techies-became-the-new-bankers\">the hagiography of brogrammers and Silicon Valley &#8220;Unicorns&#8221; has hit its expiration date<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When Danny Greg first moved to San Francisco to work at Github in 2012, he used to get high-fives in the street from strangers when he wore his company hoodie. <\/p>\n<p>These days, unless he\u2019s at an investor event, he\u2019s cautious about wearing branded clothing that might indicate he\u2019s a techie. He\u2019s worried about the message it sends. <\/p>\n<p>Greg is one of many people working in tech who are increasingly self-conscious about how the industry \u2013 represented by consumer-facing tech titans like Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and Uber \u2013 is perceived: as underregulated, overly powerful companies filled with wealthy tech bros and \u201cbrilliant assholes\u201d with little regard for the local communities they occupy. Silicon Valley has taken over from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/03\/silicon-valley-politics-lobbying-washington\">Wall Street as the political bogeyman of choice<\/a>, turning tech workers \u2013 like it or not \u2013 into public ambassadors for the 1%. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would never say I worked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/facebook\">Facebook<\/a>,\u201d said one 30-year-old software engineer who left the company last year to pursue an alternative career. Instead, at dinner parties he would give purposefully vague responses and change the subject. \u201cThere\u2019s this song and dance you learn to play because people are quick to judge.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Like Wall Street before, the tech industry is a justifiable punchbag. \u201cMBA jerks used to go and work for Wall Street, now wealthy white geeks go to Stanford and then waltz into a VC or tech firm.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gee, my heart bleeds for these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the hagiography of brogrammers and Silicon Valley &#8220;Unicorns&#8221; has hit its expiration date: When Danny Greg first moved to San Francisco to work at Github in 2012, he used to get high-fives in the street from strangers when he wore his company hoodie. These days, unless he\u2019s at an investor event, he\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,416,382,403],"class_list":["post-179739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-technology","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}