I saw a post like this some time earlier this year and my first reaction is the same…
Normal? Seriously?
The article attempts to address this in an incredibly clumsy way by saying, well, everyone is normal in some way! It totally misses the mark and basically pays lip service to the issue after it set the stage, switching over to bigger picture diversity.
Benefit of the doubt, the intention is to say ‘average’. The people in the middle of the bell curve.
‘Normal’ suggests that, outside of that range, you are abnormal if you are terrible and abnormal if you’re talented above or below the median.
There’s a non-zero overlap between abnormal and neurodivergent, both ways.
Given the number of occurrences of ‘10x engineer’ they should have gone with that and not ‘normal’.
Once someone(s) pay a lot of money for something, they will always be critical of it. They literally bought the thing. You don't think I'd write articles about the pros/cons coulda/shoulda/woulda if I paid $180k for a car?
A lot of businesses are truly poor and cannot afford buying the things they buy (in this case, it's people). Then the people have to go through their horrible post-mortem analysis. Build your own company, write your own shit, and stop analyzing how to min/max a person that was out of your league to begin with (never even in your price range comfortably, now shut up with what could have been done better).
If for whatever reason the above paragraph addressed businesses that were rich, well then, I have nothing to really say about that, because in that case we're dealing with a monstrosity for which there are no words.
Normal? Seriously?
The article attempts to address this in an incredibly clumsy way by saying, well, everyone is normal in some way! It totally misses the mark and basically pays lip service to the issue after it set the stage, switching over to bigger picture diversity.
Benefit of the doubt, the intention is to say ‘average’. The people in the middle of the bell curve.
‘Normal’ suggests that, outside of that range, you are abnormal if you are terrible and abnormal if you’re talented above or below the median.
There’s a non-zero overlap between abnormal and neurodivergent, both ways.
Given the number of occurrences of ‘10x engineer’ they should have gone with that and not ‘normal’.