<story><title>Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Rock climbing is the new golf, and tech workers are the new big shots that have replaced stodgy investment bankers. I never mention that I&amp;#x27;m a rock climber anymore. It brands you as a techfuck these days.&lt;p&gt;No evidence has been presented that woodworking is disproportionately popular among programmers. I bet if you go to some carpentry meetups you will not find a high number of programmers. Programmers are not special for having hobbies. If you talk to a non-programmer some day, you may find that they have hobbies as well, such as cooking, writing, music, and gardening. Most people have hobbies.</text></item><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I was once asked: &amp;quot;Are you a rock climbing mathematician or a cat mathematician?&amp;quot;. It was a joke designed to break the ice, but it turns out that 3&amp;#x2F;5 of that class were climbers, the others were enthusiastic cat owners. No outliers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll add software engineering and woodworking to the list.&lt;p&gt;I wonder what other surprising relationships there are out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>If there&amp;#x27;s something to be embarrassed about that&amp;#x27;s coincidentally associated with code and climbing (like, idk, so few scruples that were willing to work against the interests of our users) maybe we should address that head on rather than being ashamed of enjoying both code and climbing.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)</title><url>https://www.zainrizvi.io/blog/why-software-engineers-like-woodworking/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>carabiner</author><text>Rock climbing is the new golf, and tech workers are the new big shots that have replaced stodgy investment bankers. I never mention that I&amp;#x27;m a rock climber anymore. It brands you as a techfuck these days.&lt;p&gt;No evidence has been presented that woodworking is disproportionately popular among programmers. I bet if you go to some carpentry meetups you will not find a high number of programmers. Programmers are not special for having hobbies. If you talk to a non-programmer some day, you may find that they have hobbies as well, such as cooking, writing, music, and gardening. Most people have hobbies.</text></item><item><author>__MatrixMan__</author><text>I was once asked: &amp;quot;Are you a rock climbing mathematician or a cat mathematician?&amp;quot;. It was a joke designed to break the ice, but it turns out that 3&amp;#x2F;5 of that class were climbers, the others were enthusiastic cat owners. No outliers.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ll add software engineering and woodworking to the list.&lt;p&gt;I wonder what other surprising relationships there are out there.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>aftoprokrustes</author><text>&amp;quot;Rock climbing is the new golf&amp;quot;: I never thought about it in this way, but it makes a lot of sense. In both sports, most of the time is spent waiting&amp;#x2F;resting. This makes golf clubs and climbing gyms as much places for social contact as places where you go to train.</text></comment>