An Autistic Way of Thinking Powers Silicon Valley
wired.com
wired.com
Aspergers is a RARE condition. It needs to be diagnosed properly (not over the internet and from movies).
Most people who are rude and inconsiderate are simply rude and inconsiderate - never having been trained that other people matter and encouraged by competitive parents to look out for number one.
I don't want my children growing up in a world where it is OK to be rude and inconsiderate with a cluster of people sitting at the sidelines claiming that this is excusable because they 'think different'.
We need to teach children, before it is too late, that social graces exist because though we are all imperfect at being considerate THERE is NO EXCUSE for being inconsiderate.
Sorry, that's my thing, my button. This fiction that there are some people, like the kings of old who had divine right, who have some kind of faux modern divine right, to be inconsiderate because they have some powerful brain that can't be bothered.
To me it looks like it's a desperate attempt by the author to make her book appear relevant to tech workers.
Also, she actually is substantially autistic, despite all of her work and achievements.