Hypothesis: a non-CS STEM bg speeds you up initially, slows you down later in software. Humanities/liberal arts is reverse: slow--> fast
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. ultimately, the "why" of the things we build is critical, with the "how" as the enabling factor. perspective on humanity helps.
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. because paradoxically, they struggle with objectifying humans as compute elements. Contrast: lawyers, politicians
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Once problems scale to social level, easier for those who've studied humans enough to not idealize them.
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more like ur too smart to be a code monkey and need to hire some good webdevs in Eastern Europe
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@nyansandwich @asilentsky there r developers &there r developers. The VERY best two I know are good humans, love history/1
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@nyansandwich @asilentsky & are slightly autistic & cannot read people/rooms, r terrible in sales/mgmt/investor meetings/2
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@nyansandwich @asilentsky luckily they won’t see me say this on the Tweeter coz they wouldn’t think “social”&”networkng”/3



