I'm having a little difficulty taking seriously any points that are punctuated with smiley faces. If I'd realized that Ph.D. discussions about the tech industries would take the same form as AIM discussions from when I was in middle school, I might have made a different decision about higher education.
Learned two new things: WhatsApp co-founders were denied employment by Facebook and the criteria that makes you unemployable (and/or too qualified) to work in SV.