Take a look at finance / trading. Things are even worse over there, but they don’t blog about it.

Used to be a semi-professional poker player, which seems to have a high crossover with finance/trading types for obvious reasons. I enjoyed the debates, but sometimes it was a bit overwhelming how everyone had convinced themselves that they were magically providing a ton of value to the world and that's why they were filthy rich. Also the massive intelligence that seemed to only work when applied in one domain. Didn't mind taking their money, but never pretended I was providing society a useful function while doing so. :)

At least finance/trading doesn’t try to stalk me and waste my time day to day, unlike advertisers.

I kind of like that some of the money from this industry is resulting in learnings and improvements to open source.

Found this article great, not many places to see 5m req/s, let alone on a single node.

I'm really interested in hearing more about those databases!