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Another choice quote from a little further down: > If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or fe
by s_kilk 9y ago
Another choice quote from a little further down:
> If someone told you that engineering was a field where you could get away with not dealing with people or feelings, then I’m very sorry to tell you that you have been lied to.
This industry seems to have a problem with socially maladjusted young men who actually believe this. Then when the reality of their careers doesn't match the tech-shut-in fantasia, they lash out, like the manifesto author has done.
- koonsolo 9y agoI came across a lot of socially maladjusted geniuses. If you try to put them in the wrong environment with the wrong assignments, bad stuff happens. If you are able to manage them well, and let them do low level technical stuff, you can get amazing things out of them.
- MartinCron 9y agoIt seems like a disservice to society to isolate and protect antisocial software geniuses just because you might be able to get good work out of them.
- Udik 9y agoWhy?
- MartinCron 9y agoWell, presumably other people in the organization would have to work with them, and that is hardly fair to those other people.
- koonsolo 9y agoDepends on those other people. I've worked with plenty of those people, and most of the time they can get along really well with other technical people, but not at all with all kinds of project managers, functional analysts, sales people, etc. If you make sure they only need to interface with other technical people, they can work pretty well in such an environment. And the technical colleagues sometimes like working with geniuses where they can learn a lot from.
- MartinCron 9y agoI guess there's a difference between being a socially awkward or kinda "crusty" software genius and being an actively anti-social and/or sociopathic software genius. Maybe I'm just thinking of the typical "high performing asshole" that Bob Sutton writes about. Nobody, even other technical people, deserves to work with assholes. Period.
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