Startup Is the New Hipster (opens in new tab)

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but something serious needs to be said about it. Venture funds and this whole startup scene are selling the "startups are cool!" image hard. But it never was cool and never will be.

Step outside of your male-dominated bubble for a minute and talk to the opposite sex. Watch as her eyes glaze over when you start talking about analytics, optimization, and creating the next big photo sharing app. You're an obvious get-rich-quick schemer. There's nothing sexy about that.

The hipster and startup hipster defined by the author seem like lame versions of the bobo created by David Brooks--basically a wannabe artist obsessed with money. And that's what startup programmers will always be.

Those artsy girls you're after will choose the musician behind the counter over you buried in your MacBook every single time. Get some perspective and don't waste your 20s buying into this game.

I'm afraid even as a new addition to the Bay Area I'm sitting at the intersection of these two. My MacBook Air rides in a repurposed burlap case made from a Guatemalan coffee sack, I hardly eat anything but organic meat and cream from Bi-Rite or food from gritty taquerias, I sold my car and kept my Italian motorcycle (which I moved here on with a vintage West German army backpack), I listen to bands that obfuscate their search results with non-ASCII names, I think Java is "too mainstream", I sleep on the floor, and I like to sprinkle my speech with Hungarian idioms. There's something good to be said about the cultures that attract and sustain such outliers.

Was doing great until I ran across the Startup's lunch choice:

Sushi Burrito.

If that isn't a thing already, it needs to be.

This observation is SO ten years ago.

This is my favorite thing I've seen in a long time.