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How to grow professional relationships

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Re: How to grow professional relationships

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caseyohara wrote: post #150
tayo42 wrote: post #72

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I thought it's corporate America jargon

Technologists seem to have a special proclivity for linguistic nominalization (functional transformation of a verb or adjective into a noun). Examples: build, patch, commit, deploy, sync, mock, update, upgrade, deliverable, standup, kickoff, resolve, retry. There are probably many more.

'verbing a noun'

Also there's a stylistic difference between coining something new and necessary e.g. 'mock','patch', vs. creating something faddish and unnecessary e.g. 'an ask'.

Re: How to grow professional relationships

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mrcptthrowaway wrote: post #170
mp05 wrote: post #166

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Honest question: has the software profession not been democratized to the point where "neurotypical" people have come to overtake these jobs from those stereotypical "basement dwellers"? Or would you argue that being on the autistic spectrum provides one with abilities that their unaffected counterparts cannot possess?

Autistic people have bottom up processing. So when an autistic person gets into software engineering, it's likely that they have a "first principle" style of thinking. Many neurotypicals I see don't have that as their default processing mode. They can do it, but it's not their default. So what you get is something that you can see with blind people as well: they get better at hearing because they spend much more time…

This feels like a broad generalization. While some autistic people may lean toward bottom-up thinking, it's not universal, and plenty of neurotypicals excel at it too. The analogy with blind people and hearing doesn't really work either, since autistic engineers aren’t compensating for anything in the same way. Processing styles are much more complex than neurotype labels.

FWIW I am on the spectrum and am working on precision psychiatry with autistic individuals for my graduate thesis. I don't buy a lot of the stereotypes often peddled about spergy software guys. I find a lot of these people to be quite problematic as coworkers, regardless of how talented they may be.

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