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I have worked with a few people many on here would lionize, and the tendency to exaggerate their accomplishments and selective amnesia wrt crediting anyone else
by fidotron 2y ago
I have worked with a few people many on here would lionize, and the tendency to exaggerate their accomplishments and selective amnesia wrt crediting anyone else were common to all of them, which is how they maintain their status. It is so pervasive at the top of some tech spheres I honestly wonder if it is necessary to get there.
Ironically some of the best to directly work with have been famous assholes or completely obscure.
- mattgreenrocks 2y agoIt probably is. Really, we should look down on adoring people too much. It’s one thing to respect and admire accomplishments of other, and another to become a sycophant.
- tomcam 2y agoI got to meet and work with many of my programming heroes. I expected the same. Instead they were, to a person, understated and very patient explainers. I feel genuinely grateful 25 years after the fact.
- fidotron 2y agoI envy you! The one I lionize that I suspect is legit is Jeff Dean, partly because he has had that same colleague over the years (Sanjay Ghemawat), but he has also made what can be argued to be mistakes (the hashing in leveldb) which are in areas that probably have no objective right answer. I am intensely suspicious of those that have apparently perfect track records.