That was interesting. In a post that took less than 5 minutes to read I learned the author has undergraduateresearch experience, was admitted to an MD/PhD programme and is an inveterate namedropper. There was alsp something about some startup he's involved in, how tons of people wanted in and he (and possibly existent but never mentioned cofounders) have only hired engineers. That's at least three overt uses of social proof; too overt, like an MBA who does not inderstand that his attitude will cause many, many nerds to think he's probably not bearable company.

There was also something about some incubator's application process in there somewhere.