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FWIW I sympathise with Adria - she seems like the perfect geek (takes no bullcrap, sticks to her guns, overly logical analysis of social situations to the detri
by flarg 12y ago
FWIW I sympathise with Adria - she seems like the perfect geek (takes no bullcrap, sticks to her guns, overly logical analysis of social situations to the detriment of all); describes me some of the time, and the constant state of some of the people in the teams I have managed over the years; and yet I never once thought of firing any one of them,
Shame PyCon and the respective weren't able to deal with this in a better way.
- woodman 12y ago> overly logical analysis of social situations to the detriment of all Where do you see that in any of this? It seems to me to be a classic example of what happens when you don't think things through.
- flarg 12y agoIsn't that the same sort of thing? She interpreted a social situation in her own way and then seemed to think it through based on her own POV and biases to it's logical conclusion. According to the OP she doesn't feel anything but justified. Of course we might feel differently, but doesn't mean she didn't think it through in her own way. IMHO geeks (including me) are terrible at dealing with social situations and even worse at accepting when we are wrong when the only thing pointing to our "wrongness" is what other people think. Of course you could also be 100% spot-on and I'm being overly sympathetic to someone who doesn't deserve it. I hope I'm not.
- woodman 12y agoI don't think most people follow that very flexible definition of "thinking it through". With it being so relativistic, it loses any practical use.