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Falcon home because it&#x27;s unprofessional. Professionalism is a virtue which is deeply underrated by the computational professions.<p>Part of &quot;professionalism&quot; is the recognition that you can be whoever you want to be on your own time, but while you&#x27;re at work your personal identity is partially subsumed into your identity as a member of a profession. That means you dress, decorate, talk and behave in a way that&#x27;s a bit more neutral and respectable than you might in your college dorm room.<p>This is a bit dull, sure, but it also enables all sorts of people to work together effectively by papering over their individual differences with a shared professional identity. The fact that your coworkers are of a different sex or generation to you and like different things is pretty immaterial when you&#x27;re all wearing suits, sitting at undecorated desks and talking about work. Nobody will be alienated by your dick jokes, because nobody makes dick jokes.<p>Greater professionalism is the solution to many of the tech industry&#x27;s problems.