How we should treat each other
Social rules for technologists
Last year I came across the Recurse Centre's social rules* document. Working with computers it's easy to get carried away with the incidental complexity of our day-to-day work. I've found that too often it's easy to slip into type of discourse which at best you could call 'unproductive'.
I really liked how these social rules neatly and concretely capture a number of behaviours are self-evidently unproductive and unsupportive. As a brief summary, their rules are:
- No well-actually's
- No feigned surprise
- No backseat driving
- No subtle -isms
But really, I'd encourage you to read them for yourself.
* I came across the social rules in the code of conduct for Josh Comeau's excellent CSS-for-JS course. I'd recommend it to anyone!