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Programmers are kittens, from my experience. they are usually some of the best people. They are often shy as well.
by codecamper 10y ago
Programmers are kittens, from my experience. they are usually some of the best people. They are often shy as well.
- FeepingCreature 10y agoSampling bias, exacerbated by what you said. Sampling programmers you see what you observe, but sampling messages received you select for the bad crowd. Especially considering how cheap messages are and the outsize effect a bad apple can have.
- concinds 10y agoA lot of it can be managed. This probably isn't something most people want to hear, but Justin Bieber and Donald Trump don't get harassed. They don't read their Twitter notifications, and have people reading their mail for them. Public figures need to risk-manage, for example you'll never meet the Goldman Sachs CEO at some random bar, for obvious reasons. You also can't send him an email, since you don't know his address. CEOs, men and women, ancient and contemporary have had to find ways to avoid crowds and their envy/anger/pettiness for centuries. Just make yourself less accessible.
- MagnumOpus 10y ago> You also can't send him an email, since you don't know his address Not true. E-mail addresses of famous people are quite public, and your e-mail to lloyd.blankfein_at_gs.com or billg_at_microsoft.com will get read. Though - like you point out - it will likely be read by a team of secretaries or aides and only flagged to Lloyd if the message is deemed important or you are deemed important enough.
- concinds 10y agoInteresting. The point is that public figures have always had to shield themselves from the mediocrity of crowds, because it's easier to free yourself up from that than to change the whole society or industry.