How to Think Like an Engineer If You're Not an Engineer
Ten years of being married to a "Husbot" and why dating (and marrying) an engineer is a very good idea, actually.
//Warning: The first part of this is rather personal, and discusses my dating life, including allusions to sex. If you don’t enjoy reading that sort of thing, you might want to skip it.//
Ages ago, when I was dating and living in Washington, DC, I met a lot of interesting and brilliant-but-weird guys. That’s not totally surprising. In DC, like NY or SF (or probably anywhere with a wide diversity of transplants, immigrants, LGBTQ+ folks and highly-educated “knowledge workers”), the culture tends to skew weird & smart. For example, the latest ACS Census Data identified the DC Metro Area as having the 5th highest percentage of people with advanced degrees, and the 6th highest of men with advanced degrees.1 San Jose (which along with Santa Clara, Sunnyvale and Mountain View is ‘Silicon Valley’), ranks 4th in advanced degrees, and San Francisco 14th. Anecdotally, all of these places also rank high in weirdness. People are into some weird shit and hang in affinity groups you won’t see in say,…
Keep reading with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to Privacat Insights to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.