@simba9 , no, I don’t work in software development. I’m a recently retired aerospace engineer. I worked most of my career at a large R&D firm (about 4000 employees) that supports national space programs. My experience may not overlap with Silicon Valley – although my company does employ lots of computer scientists, and the corporate culture that I described applied equally well to them too. The article frequently mentions “engineers” and “tech”, so I thought that I’d comment on my experience with “loner genius nerds.”