"Unfortunately, it’s much easier to improve technical skills than personal skills – the key is, as Dan points out, to make sure you’re consciously choosing situations that exercise your interpersonal skills. Like most developers, I’m an introvert, so I have to actively force myself into those situations that I would ordinarily avoid." https://blog.codinghorror.com/being-technologically-savvy-isnt-enough/

Being technologically savvy isn’t enough
I didn’t realize Dan Appleman was blogging again! In one of his recent posts, he brings up an excellent point related to my recent posts on skill disparities in programming and being good at your job: sometimes, it’s the non-technical things that make you a better programmer than
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Link author: Jeff Atwood@codinghorror@infosec.exchange