Reddit's CEO got corrective laser eye surgery—for the apocalypse. I did too.

A feature in the Jan. 30 issue of The New Yorker opens with a story from Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman, about Huffman's decision to undergo vision correction surgery: 

It's just one of the many juicy tidbits in the story, which dives into the world of doomsday preppers within the shadowy world of Silicon Valley bigwigs, many of which are completely inaccessible—like keeping a helicopter gassed up 24/7—to us normal, non-founder folks. 

But Huffman's reasoning for laser eye correction isn't so crazy, or merely within the means of only a few mind-numbingly wealthy tech czars (like, say, Peter Thiel's insane plot to harvest the blood of the young for eternal life). Or at least, it's not for me.  Read more...