Interestingly, Scalzi has also written about this in a way targeted at tech folks: http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-th...

Long term I think his article on being poor may be longer lasting and more influential than anything else he does - with the possible exception of taping bacon to a cat. http://whatever.scalzi.com/about/the-canonical-bacon-page/