I stopped reading this when I got to "Why do these smart, quantitatively trained engineers, who could help cure cancer or fix healthcare.gov, want to work for a sexting app?" - there was the cover article in Time Magazine not less than 2 weeks ago about these very engineers fixing healthcare.gov, and describing why they don't do it permanently (government procurement is awful and almost always unrelated to actual skill for websites, and the healthcare.gov site is generally described as incredibly badly written by the initial contractors).
The whole article reads like a narrative that is grabbing random anecdotes to support a point, even when the facts say otherwise.
The whole article reads like a narrative that is grabbing random anecdotes to support a point, even when the facts say otherwise.