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Talking about what you're working on and being a douche are entirely orthogonal.

I feel like you have this whole interaction framework in mind (a certain social context). If you were to explain that you might get more useful answers.

On the other hand perhaps enough people can guess the situation you're in such that you get useful answers.

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It's around my cousins who are engineers or trying to be engineers. They always try to 'compete' with me even though I don't with them, I'm just doing what I love doing.

I just asked here to learn from the community for future reference.

Some people are consistently more focused on status signalling than actual communication.

They're difficult to be around. I've never figured why, maybe it's insecurity? But I honestly can't say.

In general the people I know like that aren't just that way about projects or work though, they're like that about everything...

I have to admit that I just spend no more time with them than I have to, although cousins is a trickier situation.

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