4001 ways you'll help us build Smarterer

I've seen enough "programmers are interchangable cogs" thinking and solitaire-playing, email-reading managers get large flat panel monitors (back when they were more rare), while engineers scraped by with crappy resources to decide to put a stake in the ground for our new startup.

You'd think the "hacker as maker" is more generally understood, but just recently one of the (super brilliant) people we interviewed told a story of how he interned somewhere, hired as a linux hacker, and then he was given a 5 year old windows laptop and forbidden from installing linux on it.