Many weird nerds are on the spectrum and require very good people managers above them to mitigate their quirks, and should never go into people management themselves. The industry has really changed though. It is much easier to hire social well adapted people who can code at all than to hire a bunch of people with social problems who can code really good. The former is scalable at least, the latter breaks down as no one can get along.
Neurodivergents need to be coddled because they're so smart
The author is missing a crucial pressure that pushes against weird nerds, the people that have to work underneath them. I've had to answer to a Weird Nerd when I was starting out in my field, it was the worst fricking experience of my life, and I've spent the years since warning people away from that person, their career and their contributions to their field have stagnated due to all the people like me that they burned.
Actually they're a terror to be around
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LMAOOOO GET FRICKED R-SLUR
I bet you were all like NOO THIS PERSON IS WEIRD AND ICKY GET HIM AWAY FROM MEEE” yet he makes more money than you just because of his high levil autism
!neurodivergents !engineering vindication for our (and your) kind
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!neurodivergents come defend your honor
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Computers went to shit when they started making them for BIPOCs.
Snapshots:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40624924:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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Substack is just pizzaposting. A whole essay and nothing was said
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