Indeed, I feel your pain. I am a tech geek but I have always had a foot in soft sciences or what you may best call them. I long considered working as an illustrator and have a whole family who is very interested in history, society and other cultures.

So I have found myself working on things like user interface design in tech companies in additioon to software development. It is interesting to work with people in different areas.

It often bothered me the attitudes of many of my fellow software engineers. I found them often so dismissive of things like design. The whole psychology of human interaction with technology.

I feel like I can also reckognize myself from the past in many of the techology-optimistic visions of people like Elon Musk. But he also seems to utterly lack a sense of the human factor. Like understanding that not every problem has a technology fix.

So many problems we try to fix with technology is so tied with how we humans build our social structures and live our lives. It baffles me that someone like Elon Musk when he sees a traffic problem can only think about how to make faster and more efficient transport tubes, without offering a single thought to why we humans travel so much in the first place.

Not reflection on things like city planning. Why are our jobs, residences and shops spaced so far apart that we need to constantly travel so much?

But I suspect he has spent so much time solving engineering problems, and so little time traveling and experiencing different cities and socities which are organized in different ways.