It also affects quieter, sometimes more effective men. "Speak up!" It not infrequently reduces to physical posturing. And volume escalation. I kid you not.

It also affects quieter, sometimes more effective men. "Speak up!" It not infrequently reduces to physical posturing. And volume escalation. I kid you not. (Not to mention, that these loud and aggressive types often make particularly open-space workplaces much greater challenges to the concentration of... this quiet, effective type (me), for one.) Why does engineering increasingly suck in the U.S. (excluding some of the Silicon Valley et al. "gifted" enclaves)? Because type-A assholes have taken over U.S. management. And they shit all over anyone who isn't like them and isn't the bully they are. Next up: Do they succeed on the international scene? Or do different cultures shut them down? Does e.g. a Shenzhen -- where I just got my latest and greatest fitness tracker for $23 -- manage to give them a big "fuck you" while combining extant tech into new and compelling products?