The short, tormented life of computer genius Phil Katz (2000)
Interesting (and alarming).- Founder of zappos ended up badly just recently.- ReiserFS, Hans Reiser killed his wife.- Security researcher (drawing a blank right now.. Kaspersky maybe?) went off the deep end as well.I feel like a lot of really smart people around me are on the autism spectrum or are somewhat odd.I mean, I've noticed some of the same issues as the subject of the article... social anxiety, tendency to over imbibe.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.Anyway, sad article. I had no idea.