Hustle culture
The 996 debate over the summer hurt my eyes.
On one end, it was genuinely surprising to see people being offended by the fact that you need to / want to work beyond 9-5 to achieve things and to do shit. That to pull off really good things might require some sort of sacrifice on the L in WLB. On the other hands, it was cringeworthy to see the hustle porn maximalists on the other side celebrate mattresses in the office, dropping out of [insert university] to do "their life's work building call centre agents for plumbers in SF."
I'm not arguing for picking either approach. You do you. But televising this hustle porn movement of "if you're not dropping out of university, eating ramen out of a toilet bowl and doing it in SF with other cracked builders, then you're really not doing shit with your life" is tiring. It makes X and LI unbearable (LI even more unbearable than usual).
Still can't decide what's more cringeworthy? The above or investor posts on fundraising announcements.
The tech industry has this amazing ability to think that it operates like no other industry that has gone before it. An echo chamber at times where hype, bullshit, performative marketing coalesce with incredibly awesome things, products and achievements.