How well correlated are those things with CS or Engineering studies? Star Wars and science fiction won&#x27;t help you write software. Building a computer from scratch won&#x27;t really either, these days. (And magazines are a weird one because they&#x27;re very much a relic of the past, and not as much of a realistic way to pick this stuff up for the past 15 years.)<p>Tech posters also seem entirely like a high-school&#x2F;college-age cultural thing rather than a sign of real interest. Most of my (almost entirely male) software engineer coworkers have as their desktop pictures nature scenes, cityscapes, or picture of people, very few have sci-fi&#x2F;fantasy&#x2F;anime&#x2F;whatever screenshots or art.<p>If you go to more directly-related things like &quot;reading and commenting on HN on a Sunday&quot; where someone is likely to very well be learning things that apply to their job, it would be interesting to see how much of a turnoff that seemed to be compared to the above-listed tangential culture markers. Though even then, while I&#x27;m sure business owners love having employees who will willingly do uncompensated work-related study on the weekend, I&#x27;m doubtful that it&#x27;s a thing we should be striving towards.