[joshspankit]

“if a flag of truth were raised we could watch every liar rise to wave it”

I heard this lyric at a formative time, and I’ve seen it be proven true many times. Including tech interviews. People continually seek out those signals that imply knowledge and experience and even shared culture, but those signals inevitably become too small (smaller = quicker and easier to weed people out) and then they become the very things that people practice in order to look like they have the knowledge, experience, or shared culture they need in order to get through the doors and secure the opportunities.

Then those signals get burned and the cycle starts again (in fact, in my experience the cycles concurrently overlap).