SF tech lore: 'I'm built different' reliably ends in learning the lesson firsthand
zealcaiden · x · 2026-10-03
A widely shared observation on Bay Area tech dynamics: everyone warns someone away from a person or situation, that person insists they know better because they're "built different," and then learns from first principles that they are, in fact, completely standard.
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