I finished Karen Hao's 's magnificent "Empire of AI” (which tears apart OpenAI, LLMS, and provides substantive documented proof of the ethical, emotional, financial, physical, and psychologic abuses OpenAI has inflicted on the world) As I scrolled through readers reviews online I someone I knew in high school had reviewed the book. We had similar origins, interests & career trajectories. See how women and men in STEM's careers pan out: High school: Both high grades, science enthusiasts & poets. He wrote god awful #poetry, while I won first place in a state writing competition. He won a major national scholarship b/c of this godawful poetry. College: I went to one of the best schools in the country, he stayed local-ish. Grad School: We both go to high ranked schools and study similar areas Pubs: I get published in Nature, & follow the path of few high quality high-impact papers. He gets a higher volume in lower ranking journals. Post-grad school: I'm on Medicaid he's juggling ...