Young L5 Starterpack

Young L5 Starterpack stripe instacart databricks “It’s time to take more risk”, joins a unicorn with 30B+ valuation “I’m gonna take gym seriously now” benches 40lbs Starts collecting Bauhaus watches with no resale value A∅ Thrives on external validation, no structured career growth anymore, mid-life crisis Google Docs Writes planning doc all day that no one reads 🔥 tinder GOLD Pays for premium dating apps, gets 5 matches, all bots $ ▌ Haven’t opened terminal in 5 months Spends 10 hours a day in front of the computer, thinks a chair will fix his back SIGHT GLASS Really into coffee or craft beer for some reason Meditation / mindfulness retreat in Thailand

A satirical starter pack for a young L5 tech worker, showing startup logos, an expensive watch, gym equipment, productivity tools, dating apps, a terminal, an office chair, coffee or beer, and a meditation retreat. The joke is that the supposedly ambitious and well-paid engineer has accumulated stereotypical status symbols and coping mechanisms while remaining anxious, unstructured, sedentary, and desperate for external validation.

• @profunctor_io / 7995 2022-06-10
• @dev_meme / 4580 2022-06-25