Yes, but we didn’t disagree on the value of people skills but on the other value social interaction outside of work. You are mostly convincing your coworkers while you are at work and not a social hangouts.
Convincing the rest of the world to adopt programming technique X is more likely done via the internet then through social hangouts.
I think you’re mostly right about that, but not entirely. The two realms are not so clearly separated. There are social hangouts on the Internet. There are social hangouts, of both kinds, where people talk shop. There are programming blogs and forums where social communities emerge. And social capital and professional reputation feed into one another.
Yes, but we didn’t disagree on the value of people skills but on the other value social interaction outside of work. You are mostly convincing your coworkers while you are at work and not a social hangouts.
Convincing the rest of the world to adopt programming technique X is more likely done via the internet then through social hangouts.
I think you’re mostly right about that, but not entirely. The two realms are not so clearly separated. There are social hangouts on the Internet. There are social hangouts, of both kinds, where people talk shop. There are programming blogs and forums where social communities emerge. And social capital and professional reputation feed into one another.
Spending time on programming blogs and forums isn’t what most people label as traditionally as social interaction and I don’t think what Eliot meant.