I would like to see nerd elitism and nerd bashing both stop.<p>Some people claim that to be a programmer you need to have a certain personality or hobbies, and this is wrong.<p>But nerd elitism is also a reaction to having been excluded, ridiculed and sometimes bullied.  That doesn&#x27;t make it right, but it also means that bashing nerds and nerd culture, as is all to common amongst progressives, is both unfair and counterproductive.<p>What I would like to see more people saying is that it&#x27;s ok that many people in tech have certain hobbies or personality traits in common, but that a person doesn&#x27;t have to have these things to work in tech.