The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
Interesting (and alarming).<p>- Founder of zappos ended up badly just recently.<p>- ReiserFS, Hans Reiser killed his wife.<p>- Security researcher (drawing a blank right now.. Kaspersky maybe?) went off the deep end as well.<p>I feel like a lot of really smart people around me are on the autism spectrum or are somewhat odd.<p>I mean, I've noticed some of the same issues as the subject of the article... social anxiety, tendency to over imbibe.<p>Having said all that, I wonder if there's a prevalence (or distribution?) of certain traits in a population and there are enough IT folks around now where every characteristics is represented.<p>Anyway, sad article. I had no idea.