I feel for the journalist, because I see in them the same geekery that inhabits my fellow software developers.
They’re different in detail but identical in kind.
They work in packs, but the individual has something to prove. They labor in parallel, joining together just before release. They enjoy the artful skill of their fellow producers, and genuinely want success for the person sitting to their left, but secretly want to demonstrate their own superiority, and find more fulfillment in the achievement of that respect than that of their readership.
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