12.3. Awkward PeopleIt's a stereotype with a strong basis in fact: people who write code for a living or for pleasure are often more introverted than people who sell things or teach other people all day. As with every stereotype, you can think of exceptions, but it's a good place to start making some more generalizations about people in projects. The descriptions below can apply to any group of people, but it's cheap entertainment to place people you know into the categories. You can even make up some more categories of your own:
Just don't forget to notice how people don't really fit in a single category, because we are all a mixture of these types, and still more. |