It must be hell to be in tech these days and have to adopt that relentlessly upbeat self-marketing language everywhere people can hear you.
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Did I say tech, I meant America
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Dumb train of thought before coffee has kicked in: was talking to an old-person-in-tech last night who was bemoaning cultural changes. Seemingly those were forced by the industry having absorbed 100% of the world’s production of aspies but needing more workers than that.
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So positions that used to require autism got down-skilled so they could be filled by normies, and the culture had to change to accommodate them. It’s not that normies are inherently good at self-promotion, it’s that they’re not bringing anything else to the job.
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Applying to “America” broadly, there used to be swath of jobs for “minimally systematic” people who were capable of filling forms and implementing SOPs and stuff. On the one hand, a lot of that has been computerized.
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On the other, schools for several decades have taught (at all levels) that following rules is immoral, so the people who previously would have become “minimally systematic” now only have communal-emoting skills to fall back on.
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“Here’s the work product” proves your technical-rationality skills, but you can’t do that for emotional/relational skills.
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Talking on social media about how everything is fantastic and everyone is fantastic (except the Bad People ofc) and I am extra fantastic is an attempt to prove emotional/relational skills. It’s hard to do well and is often transparently fake, but what’s the alternative?
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Replying to @Meaningness @St_Rev
It’s not that communal-emotional skills aren’t also valuable; it’s that we haven’t got good tests or signals for them.
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