Rehabilitating the Arrogant Engineer (2012)
I wonder who the target audience here is.  It is a short article composed of quotes from Randy Pausch, some generalizations about engineers, and sports metaphors.<p>&gt; I’ve had the privilege of spending my entire career in technology surrounded by wicked smart engineers. I’ve always been drawn to their raw intelligence, Spock-like rationality, sincere honesty, dry humor and quirkiness. With the immense popularity of the sitcom, “The Big Bang Theory”, I suppose I’m not alone in my appreciation of them.<p>Almost none of the characters on Big Bang Theory were engineers, they were physicists. This article seems to conflate &#x27;nerd&#x27; with &#x27;engineer&#x27; on an incredibly surface level exploration.<p>... and before anything is actually stated, it moves over to use sports metaphors to accent how important teamwork is.<p>The awful truth is that arrogance, inability to delegate, poor communication, poor ability to react to feedback are traits that are rampant in pretty much every industry, including VC.  Picking out engineers are some type of specific &#x27;archetype&#x27; especially bad at these skills is buying into awful stereotypes about engineers as if we have no social skills.