If you were going to comment on the general style of the blog, why wouldn't you take any time at all to gather data beyond literally "guessing"? What does this guess-based comment actually add?
Scott writes long thinkpeices about things like SSRI effectiveness and the role of neutrality and enlightenment values in healing America's cultural divide. As far as we know the NYT was not even planning to knife him, the issue is that they want to threaten his patient-doctor relationships by publishing his full name in a place where his mental patients could read it. (He's a practicing psychiatrist with hundreds of patients.)
Yes, it does indeed have some articles about that, but more focused on race and upbringing than gender.
> Can someone explain why this kind of material is so popular with San Francisco app developers?
It is not. But for those who identify themselves as "libertarians", it is definitely appealing to think that nothing but themselves have influenced in their success, of which being a highly paid engineer is part.
