Oct 15, 2026, 1:24 PMI've been reading some interviews with bro and
Linus is the one that needs a mentor.
Dude has to sit down and be educated about little things like "art", "culture", and "history". He may have done one thing right in his life, but he's a fool.
I can't help but feel like he's a perfect example of the frankensteins the tech world created when it accepted that antisocial behavior was just the cost of making software.
It's time to send people like Linus back to their moms.
@johnzajac @tante In my experience, that's exactly it. The influence of a mother has been villanised in the western world as weakness for way too long, while idolizing being a selfish ass as strength...
People need kindness, pets if possible, in their early life. To grow into a whole person.
@johnzajac @tante Got that entirely right. Tech heads and business people need ethics and philosophy training in high school and college, or they don’t graduate. Otherwise you get amoral behavior and worse.
Oct 15, 2026, 2:47 PM@johnzajac
cannot emphasize enough that the last thing human life on planet earth needs is linus mentoring anyone on any topic
@tante
@johnzajac
Time and time again: what lack of humanities does to a motherfucker.
@johnzajac @tante Decades in academia have shown me that art, culture and history (and related topics) have little to do with being able to function as a decent human in a work environment.