One Software Developer Personality Everyone Loves to Work With

I like this a lot. Really good context setting for what the practice of engineering really is, which is team-work. "Positive attitude and willingness" and "the right blend of curiosity and creativity" make up a huge amount of value.

There's a lot of folks who get stuck, or who spend endless amount of time roadblocking pretty good starts because one time they saw a system where such and such. Hesitancy & fear rule a large part of the population, and it's sad: we're engineers. Heads up, look to the stars, be wonderful & amazing, have that attitude: you are.

This article is a much easier to approach read than my other, long treasured, much loved G+ post, Steve Yegge's "Notes from The Mystery Magic Bus"[1], which talks to how we align ourselves & our views versus the things we face. There's a simple start to the post:

> Software engineering has its own political axis, ranging from conservative to liberal.

And he really goes into it. Really explained to me what I had been seeing, the different alignment of folk. And it helped me decide how I want to align myself, what approach I wanted to have. It's one of the best posts I've ever read about the human element of engineering, and is a go-to recommendation to begin to see & deal with the different styles of programmers out there.

[1] mirror: https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150