[Zetice]

This is written in the style of someone who worships software development, but is not themselves a professional developer and therefore has spent zero time working on a team to build something more complex than, say, a webpage.

I recognize the author is a professional developer, and seemingly has worked on teams to build complex things, but it appears as if they forgot how the human machine works, and are now stuck on some kind of nostalgia trip where everyone involved in the process is somehow like them and only able to gain energy through self expression in their software engineering work.

I do wonder sometimes if there's something about living in SF or NY that makes you forget how tiny your perspective actually is.

[juunpp]

Also the reference to Taylor Swift. I had to re-read that paragraph to see if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Could've used, you know, Eminem or M.O.P or something.

> we prevent any Taylor Swifts from ascending

So... success?