[GaryNumanVevo]

personal anecdote on monoculture

It's a big deal, and hard to mitigate. I love tech, I get paid to know and care about new technologies. However, when I'm not working I want to hear about it less and less. My current roommate has very little personality traits other than "hey I'm good at tech", he's also a self proclaimed "rationalist". Other than that, we've got zero in common, he doesn't listen to music, doesn't watch movies, only reads technical books.

I've met numerous people in the valley that have zero other redeeming personality traits. Including myself (when I first moved here), I find talking about climbing or hiking or biking or history is MUCH more interesting than talking shop about various machine learning techniques.

[jdhn]

I completely agree. I'm not a developer, but when I hang out with people in my field who can only talk about that field, it gets really old really fast.