NYTimes: Tech's Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/upshot/techs-damaging-myth-of-the-loner-genius-nerd.html
The Google engineer who was fired last week over his memo
wrote that most women were biologically unsuited to working in
tech because they were more focused on "feelings and
aesthetics than ideas" and had "a stronger interest in people
rather than things." Many scientists have said he got the
biology wrong. But the job requirements of today's programmers
show he was also wrong about working in tech. In fact,
interpersonal skills like collaboration, communication,
empathy and emotional intelligence are essential to the job.
The myth that programming is done by loner men who think only
rationally and communicate only with their computers harms the
tech industry in ways that cut straight to the bottom line.
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