[jlangenauer]

It can be. Certainly for me, the joy I got from experimenting with tech pretty much declined in the decade or so since I started working full time with computers. Now, after the working day, I try to avoid computers, preferring instead things like cooking, walking outside, or playing piano.

So I can’t give you any advice, other than to say your fears are well-founded.

[weq]

I used to be a gamer, then started to code (age 13) Age 21, got first job coding, stopped gaming. Age 25, stopped using tech or computers after work. Age 35, working remotely (coding), want to go off-grid, live a more subsistence lifestyle.

I _still love to code, have a deep passion for it_, i love to create; but anti-tech in general. I call out my phone-abusing friends, and have become very cynical to the whole tech-pr0n-bro-startup hype machine.

They used to call me a nerd at school, because i would skip sport to game/create websites/do infrastructure for pocket money (1998). Now everyone is the hopelessly addicted tech addict they looked down on, and im the only one that apparently can see it.

I will not be letting my child interact with tech until they are sufficently capable of understanding the marketing behind it. Seeing babies who cant get a nappy change without an ipad in their face makes me wonder if the future of tech is anything more then bodyless entities interacting in vRooms with 1000s of companies tapped into your thought streams tailing your dreams to suite their next product launch.

[blablabla123]

> have become very cynical to the whole tech-pr0n-bro-startup hype machine

Like most people probably I change my job every 1.5-2 years and have become increasingly better at spotting companies where this culture is in place. At the same time I notice there is increase in non-toxic cultures, I think there is hope... ;)