Now please don’t misunderstand me (and here imagine me looking earnestly to the students): when I say it’s “intensely social,” I don’t mean that you have to be a social butterfly to write software.
You can be the world’s biggest introvert and make great software.
You can be socially clumsy (I am!) and make great software.
You can be autistic and make great software.
You can be chatty and charming, or silly, or dry and serious, or linear, or or or…and make great software.
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