> This process was short-circuited immediately for those of us who went into tech. It’s the new gold rush; you really can go west and seek your fortune. Remarkable times.

> it’s completely unfair to those still trapped in that life who weren’t lucky enough to adore computers.

I must confess that after being picked on throughout middle school and high school for being a nerd, I totally reveled in this observation well into my young adulthood. Revenge of the nerds, baby... the gentle computer geeks are the ones getting rich and living well in fabulous places, while the mean, popular kids never left the hometown and are worse off than their parents' generation.

Eventually I realized that this was still thinking like a kid.