Re:Silicon Valley Has an Empathy Vacuum
by cableshaft on Monday November 28, 2016 @09:45AM
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I don't know, as you get older you find more things you can bond with the people that used to ostracize you in the Lord of the Flies microcosm that was Junior High/High School.
Work, bills, health and fitness, homes, kids, pets, where we want to go on vacation, hell I watch about three sports games a year and that seems to be enough to bond over sports, even.
I don't really have a problem getting along with people I would have never talked to in high school because as an adult I now have a lot more similar experiences I can talk with them about.
And now that technology is literally everywhere and used by pretty much everyone nowadays, as long as I dumb that down a bit I can discuss that with them too.
Work, bills, health and fitness, homes, kids, pets, where we want to go on vacation, hell I watch about three sports games a year and that seems to be enough to bond over sports, even.
I don't really have a problem getting along with people I would have never talked to in high school because as an adult I now have a lot more similar experiences I can talk with them about.
And now that technology is literally everywhere and used by pretty much everyone nowadays, as long as I dumb that down a bit I can discuss that with them too.