This is what would now be termed a "blackpill".
- Spend time hanging out with other guys talking about shared hobbies
- When you like your results, make sure people can see your enthusiasm
- Help people look good in front of their peers and they will buy
- As a contractor, do what the customer wants, not what you like best
- Before you spend the time to build something, research that your intended customer can and will buy it
- Don't worry if people complain about your stuff. They always do, even if they get rich by using your tools.
BTW, googling for Blackpill sure yields odd results:
"What Is The Black Pill? A Closer Look Inside The New Red Pill"
followed by 2 huge advertisements:
"10x your attractiveness to women - Click Here" "Accidental discovery reveals the exact body type women want - Click Here"
followed by a full-width picture of 10 naked models barely covered with what looks like a furry blanket.
Blackpill is a derogatory term for a similar pattern - people who are bad at something and respond by being 'woke' and dismissive.
I suppose the classic English term is "sour grapes".
From a quick research:
Blue pill - believe what society says, have okaysh life and ordinary dreams driven by collective narrative, zeitgeist, then burn to the ground later when somebody catches you off-guard and takes advantage of you
Red pill - be a selfish bastard you are supposed to be, use other blue pill people because they allow you to, argue using other people is what they truly want (mainly related to women, i.e. assuming women are attracted to emotionless men that are using them then throwing them away once no longer attractive), have a firm and rational grip with actual technical aspects of reality around you with good behavior prediction rate, often practicing stoicism/Zen Buddhism
Purple pill - mix of blue and red pill, having some societally-injected ideals while adhering to solipsistic consequentialism in using other people, but still being driven by societal rewards and the need of approval by others
Black pill - nothing matters, you or other people could be already dead, it won't change a thing, universe is random/pointless or created by an evil demiurge in order to torture conscious beings; whatever you do, whether good or evil, is pointless; people use each other all the time, given large enough reward there is no moral rule that couldn't be bent, there is no point in generosity and ideals, just in interests, and they are pointless anyway
White pill - universe was created for a reason that is good and everybody wants to get into a meaningful state/end, assuming overcoming obstacles by practicing virtues is necessary in order to reach some noble goal, likely maximizing utility/happiness of everybody, often associated with religion
Honestly, I am not sure how one could fight either of those pills as all historical civilizations had their own share of unrealistic myths and there were always groups of people seeing through their facade and taking advantage of better information, validating many of these perspectives and making them common meta-strategies of life.
This is, thankfully, not true. The truth is that you need to have some baseline level of competency to survive in corporate world. Sometimes it's quite low (for scrum masters, business analysts etc.), but still, these people know a lot more about software than say random person from the street outside the building.
The sad part is that, beyond this baseline level of competency, further competency does not help nearly as much as the being good at company politics.
In all honesty, this pill stuff is crap.
Yeah, but a depressing one ;-)
:P
(P.S.: Yes, I know that it is not what it means...)
Real talk it's more like narcissistic injury.