"My coworkers, for example, bonded at lunch over their dating lives and the quest to find the perfect yoga pants. They couldn’t really relate to worrying about the cost of daycare. I didn’t think the fact that we had little in common in our lives outside the office was a problem. To me, it had no bearing on our ability to collaborate on projects."

There's a lot of talk about culture - especially in startups. This article challenges the notion of culture, and could force many to think about and clarify their position. I have experienced what the author has - being the odd one out in a homogeneous workgroup, having to force myself to fit in socially just to get some work done!

Like this post, I also don't really like "forced" socializing.

However: "The lone black employee in my division, I wasn’t fitting in with my (white, single, childless) co-workers."

Really? Do we have to bring race into this? This is the only occurrence in the article and doesn't seem relevant at all.