I find business people confusing myself, because the persona they put on when meeting new people seems plastic and frightening. There is an image of the ideal

I find business people confusing myself, because the persona they put on when meeting new people seems plastic and frightening. There is an image of the ideal businessman, infinitely trustworthy, infinitely confident, infinitely congenial, and infinitely gregarious, and every time you get a group of business types together for the first time, everyone does their best impersonation of this ideal. Whenever I wonder why some people are scared of clowns, I think of a gathering of businessmen to help me understand. Unfortunately, the things you're looking for as a geek are things they might not even recognize and value in themselves. Trustworthiness between businessmen, for example, seems to be very different than trustworthiness between geeks. There's a cultural disconnect. The difference between "lack of integrity" and "reasonable behavior under stress" is very different between businessmen and geeks, with the difference cutting both ways and neither side comprehending the other's definition.