Naval on the Age Question: You Create for Sex

Most of the article is reasonable - except for the bit about the "sublimated sex drive". Did this guy just step out of a time capsule? Freudianism is past its expiration date.<p>I call foul. The idea that nerds are nerds because they can't get a date - that serious math is something that the sexually satisfied wouldn't bother with - is a pernicious stereotype, and if you're gonna flirt with that argument in the 21st century then you're gonna need data. Real data, not one-shot anecdotes like the life of Paul Erdos. (I'll see your Paul Erdos and raise you the thrice-married Richard Feynman. Now it's your turn: name a celibate jazz musician.)<p>If the urge to create software comes from a sublimated sex drive, why hasn't the world ground to a halt since we installed 24-hour vending machines for free porn on every programmer's desktop? Was reddit founded by eunuchs? How can YC possibly compete with all those live webcams and chat rooms?

"Modern entrepreneurship, especially web entrepreneurship, is extremely competitive / time sensitive, requires enormous amounts of iteration even within a single product life-cycle, and often requires solving many challenging technical and business problems one after the other in a public view (<i>with the opposite sex watching</i>)."<p>This doesn't make sense. Every web entrepreneur knows the opposite sex <i>isn't</i> watching.<p>

Upvoted for combining multiple relevant sources including Douglas Adams into one post.<p>