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Are you just realizing just now you are a Republican after all? Are you like : oh shit Zuckerberg too, maybe I’m the one who’s wrong?

Joke aside, yes engineers are condescending a-hole. I think the most effective way to avoid that is to meet people who are really a lot smarter than you are.

For me it was easy, cause my brother is one of them. I think I am smart but he’s a whole other level. Sometimes I come up with an idea and work on it for 6 months, and when I talk to my brother about it, it’s like he’s 3 sentences ahead of me all the time. And it’s not rare that I make sense of what he tells me 6 hours after talking to him. So weird. No wonder he skipped 2 years when he was 6, and then proceeded to get into the best schools in the world with super high grades all the time.

I met a few other people like that in my career. This was truly humbling, and I don’t mean the fake “humbling” term startup people throw around, I mean humbling like you feel really close to the ground. Like “oh ok, I’ll just shut up now”