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> Some research shows that neurodivergent people can make teams up to 30% more productive when placed in the right environments. This rings true for any kind o
by rollcat 3y ago
> Some research shows that neurodivergent people can make teams up to 30% more productive when placed in the right environments.
This rings true for any kind of "difficult" team member. All people have intrinsic advantages, and many who are considered "difficult" to work with, either are in the wrong role, are expected to be doing something that's uncomfortable to them, are not strong with communication, deadlines, estimating, etc.
Your job as a team leader/manager is to figure out how to best utilize their talents, without letting the shortcomings get in the way of the project / rest of the team. Someone's really bad with deadlines? Don't give them deadlines! Assign them to more "async" work like writing tests, documentation, maintenance, etc.
For me, with a strong technical background but no experience managing a team, having found myself in that role for the first time, it helped to think of it as an optimization problem. Databases are great at handling many rows of columnar data. GPUs are great at heavily parallel work like matrices.
Every human is good at something. [NSFW] https://www.oglaf.com/gifted/ https://www.oglaf.com/gifted/
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- GartzenDeHaes 3y ago> deadlines, estimating IMHO, most of them can do well with these things as long as you're not asking them to completely make something up.
- sitzkrieg 3y agosoftware estimates is making something up
- jgalt212 3y agoI think making an estimate for something that works is doable. Making an estimate for what the boss asked for, is NP Hard.
- bigbillheck 3y ago> NP Hard What exactly is the size of your input here.
- jgalt212 3y agoIt was a nerd joke. Not an actual formula.
- swayvil 3y ago>Every human is good at something. I dunno man, some would accuse you of invalidating their suffering by offering such a statement.
- em-bee 3y agobut you are suffering because others, or even you yourself can't recognize what you are good at, so how does that invalidate your suffering?
- michaelt 3y agoIf I meet a guy with no legs and my first reaction is to highlight the strengths of great parking spaces and saving money on trousers, he might see that as me failing to acknowledge the reality of his situation.
- defrost 3y agoMaybe. Also possible they might actually laugh and counter with their own upside to being leg incomplete joke and welcome you for not looking away like so many others do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Leg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Leg Cracking jokes with amputees is a real minefield ~ Invictus Games Opening Speech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invictus_Games
- swayvil 3y agoFact is, there's no way to keep a person from being offended if they want to be. No logic, no evidence. And this is an attitude that is freakishly respected these days. Whole groups of people validating each other's offendedness. And even getting offended on behalf of people they never met. And to belong to a class of people widely known to be in a permanent state of offendedness, and unassailably so, and generally respected as such, is a highly desirable and sought-after position. The maniacs have taken over the asylum.