{"id":199,"date":"2009-03-17T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=199"},"modified":"2009-03-17T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:59:00","slug":"199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zed is so on the money <a href=\"http:\/\/zedshaw.com\/essays\/the_freehackers_union.html\">here<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then I went to another event at SparkSpace, which is a fairly nice coworking place in midtown. I walked in the door and some guy (one of the hosts I guess) asked what I do. I said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m a programmer but I\u2026\u201d Then he cut me off and said, \u201cOh! Everyone\u2019s always looking for techies. I\u2019m sure you can find some great ideas here to work on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, because I don\u2019t have any of my own ideas. No, you see I\u2019m a fucking nerd because I code. Never mind that I\u2019ve traveled the world, survived horrible events, built myself up from nothing learning to fight, love, pray, and survive despite numerous obstacles that would make this little maggot piss his fucking pants.<\/p>\n<p><span>I fucking code so I\u2019m not a man anymore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You see people, the alpha males have business degrees. They can be fat and pasty, pretty boy douchebags, or even ugly serial killers, but if they have an MBA from a 6 month \u201cexecutive program\u201d then they\u2019re ALPHA. They have the ideas. They have the balls. They\u2019re full of testosterone. Now me, I learned to actually do something with my brain besides take people\u2019s money, which means I\u2019m not a real man. My ideas don\u2019t mean anything and I\u2019m just supposed to let the adults talk. I\u2019m BETA, and only some shit fuck rich boy (or wannabe rich boy) with his fucking pop-up collar and cheap suit can truly lead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zed is so on the money here : Then I went to another event at SparkSpace, which is a fairly nice coworking place in midtown. I walked in the door and some guy (one of the hosts I guess) asked what I do. I said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m a programmer but I\u2026\u201d Then he cut me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[197,425],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hackers","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}