One of my most effective colleagues had a fundamentally different intuition for software design problems. And we were both pretty opinionated. :-) Some of our b

One of my most effective colleagues had a fundamentally different intuition for software design problems. And we were both pretty opinionated. :-) Some of our best work was the result of extremely heated design discussions, where we hammered our intuitive ideas about a problem into alignment. It was exhausting, and probably even harder on him than me (I can be difficult about design stuff), but it was hard to argue about the quality of the results.