Extremely unhinged funny article that discusses a real phenomena : white gay men have taken over the tech scene. Almost all the CEOs and big players of AI firms are gay men, 17% of SF identifies as LGBT, the highest in the world. Gay men have the highest education rates and highest salaries.
The article atributes it to this :
“Imagine this, Mark says: You are a young, nerdy, closeted gay man. You grow up never quite fitting in. Your parents start asking questions. Why don’t you have a girlfriend? You tell them you’re too busy for a relationship. Eventually, you move to San Francisco, a city that, as one person puts it, is like “Disneyland for gay men.” Your world opens up. You meet other people like you—men who are openly out, many for the first time in their lives. These men happen to be working at influential companies. They are building technology that is astonishing. And slowly it dawns on you: Maybe you, too—a person who has spent a lifetime overlooked and underestimated—can build something extraordinary. “Gays feel,” Mark says, “that they have something to prove.”
I find it very interesting that coming from a marganalized background can make you outperform everyone when you are given the resources required.
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Extremely unhinged funny article that discusses a real phenomena : white gay men have taken over the tech scene. Almost all the CEOs and big players of AI firms are gay men, 17% of SF identifies as LGBT, the highest in the world. Gay men have the highest education rates and highest salaries.
The article atributes it to this :
“Imagine this, Mark says: You are a young, nerdy, closeted gay man. You grow up never quite fitting in. Your parents start asking questions. Why don’t you have a girlfriend? You tell them you’re too busy for a relationship. Eventually, you move to San Francisco, a city that, as one person puts it, is like “Disneyland for gay men.” Your world opens up. You meet other people like you—men who are openly out, many for the first time in their lives. These men happen to be working at influential companies. They are building technology that is astonishing. And slowly it dawns on you: Maybe you, too—a person who has spent a lifetime overlooked and underestimated—can build something extraordinary. “Gays feel,” Mark says, “that they have something to prove.”
I find it very interesting that coming from a marganalized background can make you outperform everyone when you are given the resources required.
[https://archive.is/HnmyB](https://archive.is/HnmyB)
The what
That thumbnail is a choice
Just as Alan Turing intended?
I love shaking my bros hands like that.