The stereotype of the mild mannered skinny graphic designer in plaid working for a FAANG feels like an anachronism of the early 2010s. I've noticed a trend where male designers (at least), are:
- committing harder to entrepreneurship while retaining a sophisticated aesthetic sensibility
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tech bro 1.0- nerds in a garage who want to change the world, burning man, psychedelics, Silicon Valley, super technical
tech bro 2.0- 996, blue chip pedigree from FAANG or university, gym bro, obsessed with tracking everything, AI vibecoding marketing slopmaster
tech bro 3.0- philosopher,... See more
Technology Brothers is the best personification of the vibe shift.
Their aesthetic and approach to discussion are the antithesis of Brooks's "Bourgeois Bohemian" archetype that so accurately described elite culture for the past 20 or so years.