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It 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 ago
  Why?
  • MartinCron 9y ago
    Well, presumably other people in the organization would have to work with them, and that is hardly fair to those other people.
    • koonsolo 9y ago
      Depends 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 ago
        I 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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