The Nerd/Geek Handbook
Posted November 14th, 2007 @ 02:44pm by Erik J. Barzeski
I've passed this article along to my wife (as have thousands of others). Here's to hoping she actually reads it.
One of the biggest problems I continually face online is that I prefer to communicate "briskly." I view small talk as even more pointless when it occurs online, and I'm not a fan at all of "flowery" language meant to spare feelings. Mistakes happen - so what - it's learning and adapting and not making the same mistakes again that I care about. Very few other people work this way - they prefer the "flowery" language - and I'm often misinterpreted as rude when I'm simply trying to be efficient.
As for projects, I have two or three ongoing right now, yes. 
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Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 7:42am #
I read the article earlier this week and passed it on to my wife and co-workers. Good stuff--matching the the caliber of everything else on the site.
There is nothing wrong with being terse, as long as it gets the point across.
Posted 15 Nov 2007 at 6:30pm #
I, too, read this article and forwarded it to my wife. As a nerd/geek/world of warcraft player, it made too much sense. I talked with my wife about the difference between "the Zone" and "the Place".
She laughed...
Posted 17 Nov 2007 at 10:36pm #
I now work at a company where direct communication is valued, in fact required. It took me a while to start calling an error "an error", rather than "an unexpected event". Also I can call a bug fix "a bug fix" and not "a modification of program behavior".