Being shy myself I know there are positive articles about shyness or introversion in general. They are quite easy to find because there aren't many about them s

Being shy myself I know there are positive articles about shyness or introversion in general. They are quite easy to find because there aren't many about them so they easily become fairly popular through HN and the like. On the contrary implicit negativity about shyness is something I experience on a regular base and I'm rather getting wary of that. At work people take it as an excuse to not listen and only think about their own opinion. I mean many people don't listen no matter if you say something or not. (By the way, the book 'Just Listen' is a great read about that) So in the workplace it's very convenient to promote extroverted and openly aggressive people to management and let them manage 'shy people' who are not whining so much. One thing I have realized is that it depends who you meet or work with whether they understand you or not. When something is wrong, some people see that in my face without me having to tell lengthy monologues. Also I don't get how an extroverted person is going to say that he or she is not getting any air. On the other hand since recently I'm seriously starting to wonder if extroverted people can ever do any programming tasks. So do extroverted people have to stop talking if they want to become excellent programmers? Probably the answer is no but the way we work as developers would have to change.