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Someone died. Stop and think about that for a bit and tone down the stupid "but logic!" BS. Recognize that we don't know exactly what happened and it's worth digging into. This is a great time to practice empathy instead of stroking your ego.

> I've often thought about that and used similar mechanisms in my tech work.

This made me laugh because I can't for the life of me figure out what this means. Can you elaborate? Sounds interesting.

> I looked this guy up; he's a bona fide composer, apparently.

According to his website, he's a Harvard and Oxford grad that's studied music. He's also a prof at Princeton in their music department (which is no small feat).

It's likely that he's using terminology that's more common in certain circles. If you get into music theory at the top-tier music schools and other high-end educational institutions, the way they talk about music is going to be different than how most practicing musicians talk.

> Wait until you find out 20% of the deaf are illerate

Or that the average reading level of people that are deaf in the US in 4th grade.

> What people often don’t consider is that even if that is true, the likelihood that you will care for someone with a disability — an aging parent, a spouse, or a child - increases the likelihood of lack of accessibility impacting your ability to enjoy your (shared) life.

Yes. Many many many people don't realize that their future holds experience with disabilities.

And wait until they have to deal with the young tech people calling all the shots on how products look, change, evolve, etc. This idea that we should constantly be updating our UI, workflows, and shoving new features in front of users as a way to push people to expand (and spend more) of what they do has created such a huge problem in our family for our aging relatives. We've had to constantly shift which tech we use to find stuff that's going to be the most simple and easy to help through through while on the phone.

> I think I've called a service provider of any kind once in the last five years. It didn't actually get me anything that text comms would not have.

It sounds like what you are implying is that because you haven't experienced it in a 5 year period, someone who lives their entire life like this must not experience this as well? Even though you are presented with data saying otherwise?

Something a lot of people miss or don't understand: software engineers typically emulate other software engineers, not managers.

If you are tech lead you should be keeping this in mind at all times - your behavior, attitude, and approach to things gets amplified across team members.

If you are a manager you should also be keeping this in mind at all times - the values and behaviors want demonstrated on your team will need to be cultivated by key devs in your group. Working with them to help shape their understanding of how to be effective and how to lead others will really help things solidify in the group.