Often times we conflate loud communication with good communication. In my personal experience there are lots of verbose individuals that are poor communicators.
Often times we conflate loud communication with good communication. In my personal experience there are lots of verbose individuals that are poor communicators.
It does not mean to be shy, nor uncomfortable with people. Introversion does not mean exhibiting symptoms of autism either, which might be what you are talking about with "simplify at the proper level" (?).
Introversion and extroversion have absolutely nothing to do with the quality of a software engineer or its documentation. I just wish this label would just die, given how its misunderstood and misconstrued.
I spend most of my working day talking to people, and at the end of the work day I'm done with people and need to spend a significant time alone in my head to recharge. I doubt that any of the folks I work with would describe me as an introvert because the nature of my work doesn't allow me to fall into the comfortable isolation I'd prefer. At the same time, I can't have the impact that I do if I was the stereotypical "introvert" engineer which is what makes all the effort worthwhile. The biggest challenge with this is my intolerance for people extends to friends and family after work. A day full of meetings and I can't focus on conversations my wife tries to pull me into and I have zero desire to hang out with any friends. I literally need time alone to recover.
After a long day I tend to zone out and my partner tells me it's like they're talking to a wall.
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At any rate, your comment is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about. Even if where I get my idea of it is off course from yours, you immediately become seemingly quite offended and start arguing your point in depth on trying to change what I understand as being a pretty global understanding of a word. You even kind of argue at the end that it is common usage.
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At the same time I see people watching a tutorial telling them how to put their OpenAI API key into a mass-adopted bot platform and getting "It's really cool you can do these kinds of things!" which is what started the conversation. Like it's cool they're trying, no shade to them but my baseline of what most people will think is interesting is so distorted.
It's not feasible in a number of organizations, but things like this are why it's important for developers to interact with the users of the software that they create. You learn so much more about what works and doesn't work for the users. You learn their vocabulary and assumptions about using apps which is often quite different from "power users" like we tend to be.
Extroverts get energy from talking to people, so they are likely to do it more
Introverts are the opposite.
An introvert can talk more than an extrovert.
This is especially true for juniors because they cannot fix stuffs quickly, so it's better to talk their thoughts loudly in the incident channel.