But it doesn’t—it comes, first, from the dumb bumbling luck of life and history, and then, forever, from pattern-matching,
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Reinforced and amplified forever from the countless micro-adjustments to keep people in that pattern.
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When you’re out of the pattern, you’re an anomaly, an exception that proves the rule (Must have gotten some of that pre-natal testosterone)
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My mom ran punchcards in the late ‘60s. Computer engineering was full of women. Aside from being brilliant, Grace Hopper wasn’t an anomaly.
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Did women at the time argue that men couldn’t do the work—that testosterone made them unsuited to the deliberative practice of code?
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Nope, but when the money got better, you can guess what arguments started to emerge from the shadows.
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But let’s say we set aside the effect of prenatal hormones on whether or not we like trucks, and consider this instead:
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Programming is the fundamental practice of encoding the way in which we interact with the world and each other. The ways in which we change.
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If a person is *actually* talented at assessing & manipulating pattern-based systems, they shd be really fucking good at human interaction
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Human interaction highly intuitive, instinctual. Conscious analysis far too slow for the pace of conversation, words, body language subtle.
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