What’s a “techie”? | Seth's Blog

Godin attempts to define the term "techie", something a lot of people say but don't really specify what it really means.

I'm going to argue that involves a combination of two things:

1. You give technology the benefit of the doubt. You assume that it's interesting, or perhaps benign or even useful.
2. You're interested in what's new. You don't need to be pushed to ask about the next tech thing.

His urge is that for most people these days you cannot choose to opt-out of this.

I think we've long passed the point where an active professional can simply choose to not understand how tech works.

You're a user or you're being used. Best to know which.

I think he is mostly right.