I don&#x27;t want anybody to get turned off from anything they want to do, but I think it&#x27;s worth realizing that we used to see tribalism as a badge of honor. You don&#x27;t feel like you belong when you&#x27;re young or just starting out because <i>you don&#x27;t yet belong</i>.<p>I remember reading programming blogs when I was starting to program and instead of feeling like those guys were elitist jerks who were <i>excluding</i> me, I thought, man, you know, I want to someday know as much as they do.