in reply to [OT] How to Have a Business Conversation

This article names what are common places for all who have absorbed the three virtues of programmers and have become aware of how they oppose social virtues:
laziness <=> diligence impatience <=> patience hubris <=> humility

Understanding dialectic and having a tagmemic worldview, together with sound reasoning (no link provided for that one on purpose) helps greatly avoiding the pitfalls named therein. Inner guidance is a grace.

--shmem

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