[Ipg-smz] RU an imposter?

[Dana Blankenhorn]

I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 8, and I'm told it means you miss
deadlines. But I have always been anxious to beat deadlines, by as much as
I possibly can. Which is a problem in daily journalism.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 3:17 PM Tom Henderson <thenderson at extremelabs.com>
wrote:

> Not all engineers are on the spectrum. Not all people on the spectrum are
> engineers.
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> Let's say a healthy number, higher than in other professions, may show
> traits.
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> Generalizations are onerous. I know a few extroverted engineers, but if
> you want to use generalized Myer-Briggs, many are around the center of the
> famous squares. Like venn diagrams, it's not perfect.
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> This said, many that have found themselves in computing have manifested
> many diverse backgrounds. Writing is similar.
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> When I was young, it would be tough to put yourself into a career/vocation
> as a computerist, because there really wasn't such a thing in 1968. It was
> then, as it is now, many different disciplines coming together to re-invent
> how we process data. I was lucky to choose electronics, knowing something
> about computing from a young age. English teachers in my ancestry helped.
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> The very term "data processing" is an antique. Next year, I'll officially
> be an antique as well.
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> Because of the diffuse nature of interdisciplinary convergence applied to
> computing, it seems easy to feel like a duck out of water, because both the
> duck and the water have been re-defined. Both are fowl, pun intended.
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> A cop is now a public safety officer, a sociologist, crowd flow expert,
> detective, negotiator, and perhaps a peace officer. Because police have
> such an enormous burnout rate, they've also banded very tightly together as
> a self-protection mechanism. Some of the disciplines of computing have done
> the same thing.
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> Coders are an army, as are sysadmins, software engineers, analysts, UI/UX
> designers, webadmins, and so forth. There's a fraction of each of these
> that unlikely were schooled and credentialized in their assumed positions,
> and I believe that this fact is most prominent in the Imposter Syndrome. It
> also makes, if you read the book long ago, an imposter-sentimented
> individual more actively seeking conservative, rather than diffuse decision
> making within that discipline as they perceive the discipline. Altruists.
> People want to be a member.
>
> This doesn't change my opinion that there are sincerely dedicated
> individuals that don't know shit from shinola, and to that extent, have
> brought acres of misery in systems foibles, ranging from rotten security
> thinking through to stuff that just doesn't work and was a bad idea in the
> first place.
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> Let those among you that haven't had to do tech support for your family
> and friends, battle Comcast/ATT/Verizon etc., reboot infinite amounts of
> stuff, or just show someone the hidden selection on what should be an
> obvious app throw the first stone. No, we're not perfect, but Darwinism
> plays too great a role in our computing lives, IMHO.
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> Tom
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> On 09/10/2018 01:48 PM, Logan Harbaugh wrote:
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> It is interesting, though that Silicon Valley has about six times the
> number of engineers as the population as a whole, and also has about six
> times the number of people on the autism spectrum…
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> Thanks,
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> Logan G. Harbaugh
> logan at lharba.com
> 530-243-1346
> 1547 Magnolia Ave.
> Redding, CA 96001
> www.lharba.com
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> On Sun, 2018-09-09 at 13:20 -0400, Perlow, Jason wrote:
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> that are by nature introverted and anxious, to begin with, because they
> are ADHD and have other neurological traits.
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> I agree about the introverted and anxious part, but I'm not sold on ADHD
> having a heavy crossover with writing and programming. We may think that
> because many of us do jump from subject to subject, but we tend to do well
> at each subject, which has not been what I've seen with people with ADHD.
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> Steven
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> QOTD: "I will buckle down to work as soon as I finish reading the
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