Are "technies" likely to have Asperger Syndrome? JOANNA A. wrote: > Someone from Tandem just self-published a book about that company's golden > years. I worked there for a couple of years (85-87), and boy, were they > golden. > > This was in the early eighties before the profession was professionalized, > so they hired everyone. That was the CEO's idea that if you hire bright > people and let them figure things out, all will turn out well. > > He was so right, and the working atmosphere there was amazing. I was > surrounded by mathematicians, linguists, philosophers, musicians, > physicists, egyptologists, lit majors.....all making things up as they went > along. So, that might be a good place to look. All gone now of course. My > manager actually let me work on my dissertation at work. Those days are > gone: swallowed by Compaq I think. > > HP used to be great too. Apple was very dysfunctional. > > But leaving that aside. Yes, most of what Shane says is true. And what > someone added: that they're not opposed to taxes or govt. I'd like to add a > few things that people don't normally know about techies, because it's > inconsistent with the cliches. > > 1. They do work well together and the nature of software development is that > they must work well together for things to work. So, they're not lone > rangers. It is also the nature of software development that they're fairly > humble. Because what makes them effective is not that they don't make > mistakes, but that they know how to fix them. They make mistakes all the > time. > > 2. They, almost universally, have an important creative hobby on the side: > generally music or photography. > > 3. They don't necessarily like computers, but they like problem-solving. > > 4. The one and only time I saw them involved in politics en masse is when > Obama first ran for president. They actually took vacation time to go > register voters in the south and south west. That bespeaks naivete, but also > potential for political involvement. > > 5. They do not like the corporate structures for which they work. > > Joanna > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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