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The professional coworker
- k__ 14y agotl;dr You work with a bunch of people you don't care for, so the only motivation to interact with them is to show them that you're valuable. If they already know this, you have no motivation at all to interact more than needed to get the work done. --- The better most developers get, the less they care about socializing. There is a principle, which describes this phenomenon, I think. In a meeting, people will talk about many things, but mostly about those things everyone knows something to say about. This leads to long discussions about stuff, that is SO banal that every idiot can say something about this. People don't do this to be a nice person, they do this so it doesn't seem like they have nothing to contribute. In addition, most of us don't work with their friends, they work with a bunch of random characters. If everyone of those characters knows, you're a genius, you don't have to do additional socializing to show them that you contribute stuff.
- mcrittenden 14y agoI'm not really sure I get your point. The post isn't meant to be about socializing, it's meant to be about doing a good job in all of the non-coding aspects of your job. Socializing isn't really a part of that at all (except for maybe that I said to be friendly).