It's hard to be unbiased while being introspective, but I suspect I might be a bit of a jerk. I don't berate people, but I get frustrated easily with what I con

It's hard to be unbiased while being introspective, but I suspect I might be a bit of a jerk. I don't berate people, but I get frustrated easily with what I consider to be manifestly stupid choices. It's worth noting, then, that the most successful and productive teams I've worked on have been where everybody was a bit of a jerk. We could give each other shit without our egos getting in the way. We knew that it was just banter. It's kind of like how guy friends rib on each other all the time without it hurting their friendship; there's a certain baseline level of criticism that's enough to convey useful advice but not so much as to make people feel like shit. E.g. "Kenny, what the fuck is this loop supposed to do?" Is more effective than "I feel like this could be written more clearly."