I consider myself to be forward thinking - fiscally conservative yet socially liberal - having grown up poor in the south surrounded by all kinds of "diversity". Tech used to be this place where we all collaborated to make beautiful things to either make lives better or fund our next idea. Now, I'm getting burnt out, having to stop every two weeks to follow/address/avoid a new issue (some valid, some grandstanding).

Are you growing (insert emotion) with the growing number of conflicts, incidents, soap-box speeches, etc being publicized or revealed throughout the industry?

Are we headed towards a more vanilla, corporate-like industry where people-soft training and HR presentations are baked into our daily lives to ensure we're all getting along?

Will all of the conflict and friction slow down innovation or stunt open source technology?

I'd love to hear your thoughts, HN!

Refs:

Gender diversity: http://mashable.com/2017/06/08/silicon-valley-harassment/#ybOPzWFGdEqH

Peter Thiel: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/fashion/peter-thiel-donald-trump-silicon-valley-technology-gawker.html

Nodejs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15081821

Opal: https://github.com/opal/opal/issues/942