Also, recently there was a geek who claimed that he was now much better at getting with the ladies on Reddit. He was also recommending the “Mystery Method”. Makes me think, but I don’t really want to get into practicing “game”.

If Neil’s account is any indication, it doesn’t seem like a good path. He remarks near the end of the book that while practicing “game” had gotten him and his friends in bed with many women, it didn’t really help with the thing that many people had gotten into the scene for in the first place: finding a lasting, intimate relationship.

One later section even says, that hordes of computer programmers eventually show up to learn the “Mystery Method” and what not. Although I’d hardly advocate all of the book’s methods, they nonetheless give you a better framework for dealing with the “What do you do?” question.

For the time being, I do info-sec in the financial industry. That means I have bursts of very cool projects and spans of rather boring things like audits and hashing out policy. I usually sum it up as “I help keep bad guys out of mutual fund accounts” – THAT usually leads to some interesting discussion. It’s short, simple, accurate and it has a hook.

Thanks for the great post!

The uni bomber hated technology and was trying to kill people to stop its progress. He deliberately used a typewriter, it wasn’t a lack of a pc or internet leaving no option – the net would have infuriated him.