Disrupted

I get it. I'm an old guy working in high tech, but I've always been here and in Canada we're at a slight remove from the unicorn madness infecting some other tech centres. I can understand Dan's snark and I've seen evidence of ruthless backstabbing, hi-tech mean-girling, hare-brained revelations from egotistical narcissists, Kool-aid slurping wage slaves, frat boy brogrammers and more - his just goes to eleven.

But calling out the bro-coders out for their frat boy antics then gleefully recounting the dick, fart and shit jokes you live on in the writers room seems disingenuous. I understand you calling out the 20-somethings for their lack of experience, but can you please not mention you were kind of a big deal at Newsweek again?

I'm not sure what I wanted from this story. Maybe more snark or some sort of narrative so that it didn't just feel like a book-length bitch session. Dan manages to be at a complete remove from everyone involved in the story so that it feels like he's just lobbing spitballs at the tech industry now that he's safely hidden behind the protective apron of Hollywood.

Maybe if you work in hi-tech and still can't explain what it is you do to your folks you can send them this so they get a feel for how far removed from reality the crazy farm can get.