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Musk had a hair transplant, which is quite expensive and a quite involved procedure. The results are also highly dependent on how bald you are, the type of hair you have, and even the doctor who does it. If you accidentally pick a bad doctor your hair transplant can end up looking awful. It also doesn't make your balding stop, so you may continue balding and need another hair transplant in the future. Hair transplants treats the symptom of hair loss but not the problem.

The holy grail would be a pill or lotion you could take and truly stop/reverse hair loss. There are some existing pills (finasteride) and lotions (rogaine) but they don't work for many, and have their own issues as well.

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Plus, your head looks like shit for at least a week, maybe much longer, depending on individual. It's a gamble. And it thins out the hair in the back of your head (known as the "donor area"). That's probably why the back of Trump's head looks dodgy in the wind.

Hair loss is important in the IT field because age is frowned upon in our industry. It directly affects our career.

This is surely a sensitive topic and I hope I'm not being too insensitive here, but I've personally never frowned upon someone who has less hair than me. Even if my hair is thicker than that of most people, that only means I have less testosterone in my body that you. It means you are more of a man than I am. Everyone knows that. I say, own it!

I'm not saying people "should be" judged on hair, but in practice they are. If you look old, you score lower in IT interviews. I'm just reporting human nature, not making it. I don't have access to humanity's source code.

Fields like medicine and law value age. I'm jealous of those of fields. In IT you have a grey arrow on your back and have to consciously try to counter it, such as acting enthusiastic about dumb fads that management falls for.

Youngbees don't know better and lick them up with a smile: "Yum yum, block-chain q-bit microservice no-sql serverless node.js++ for our little contract tracking app! Woohoo!" I know better, but STFU to not look like an old-tech-loving geezer.

All of that would change if only you had a full set of hair?

No, it's just one part of a bigger issue. I did drift the topic a bit, I admit. Sign of old age :-)

The relationship between testosterone and hair growth is a bit of a myth.

That explains why I'm bald AND have a small wanker.

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