All of this is spot on: Tech Companies Are Irrational Pop Cultures

While there are some excellent exceptions, this seems to be the rule. And the problem seems exacerbated by public companies since stock traders also inhabit an irrational pop culture.

Science at its best:

Brock couldn’t stop wondering about what exactly was going on in those boiling pools. He was dying to know: What was alive down there? How was it surviving?

from this great story and lesson.