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Just because he's the best programmer in the room doesn't excuse his horrible and unacceptable behavior. He this type of behavior goes unchallenged and is allo
by e40 15y ago
Just because he's the best programmer in the room doesn't excuse his horrible and unacceptable behavior. He this type of behavior goes unchallenged and is allowed to flourish, then many people will lose a voice. I think that would be tragic.
- grandalf 15y agoI think the solution is for people to feel comfortable defending their approach OR admitting they were wrong, and realizing that the goal for everyone is learning, not being right. Yehuda may have spent hours, months, or years coming up with the insights he shared, so of course he's going to feel strongly about wanting to prevent others from wasting the time the way he did.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoIf he felt so strongly about preventing others wasting time then wouldn't he have been better putting them forward in a diplomatic way that didn't embarrass the presenter (who was as a result likely to be defensive and therefore unlikely to learn) and alienate some members of the audience (and who now think he's a dick and are probably less likely to learn from him)? Yehuda's approach if accurately described was as much about being right as about others learning. Confrontation is rarely a good teaching technique so I'm not clear why you justify his behaviour as in some way enhancing that goal.