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This is my reading of the article; can someone correct or add to this? The author is a psychologist for software developers. She cannot join the ranks of the t
by sriram_malhar 2y ago
This is my reading of the article; can someone correct or add to this?
The author is a psychologist for software developers. She cannot join the ranks of the technical, just as a judge needs to be wary of bias towards the defence or the prosecutorial side.
- pjc50 2y agoNo, her argument is that "technical" is a label assigned by other people, that she cannot escape being dismissed as "not technical" regardless of any achievements or evidence.
- bluGill 2y agoWhich is in fact wrong - other people have labeled her as technical. Not everyone will label her has technical, but no matter how good you get someone will label you as not-technical. As such her argument is incorrect. Now I do not know her. I have no idea if I would call her technical. She appears to at least have the background to become technical, but she may not want to spend her time doing that. I'm not sure what level of others think you are technical is required to say someone really is, but it isn't unanimous agreement.
- alabastervlog 2y agoCapital-T Technical in the piece appears to narrowly mean "accepted as part of high-comp coastal US tech bro circles". It's not really explained until near the end, but that sure seems to be what's going on, which is why a lot of posters were having trouble following it or misunderstood what was intended.
- worthless-trash 2y agoSo they'll never understand the problem.