Here we go again. I am framed. This is it: stuck here with a bunch of techies talking about unbelievably boring staff. Can I survive this one? What do this people do when they are home? I feel like the career builder commercial. Why did I get into this? Is this the wrong room, the wrong meeting? No. It is the right one. This is the room for the project functional design review. And the people around me are the developers of my project. Yes they are nice people, just totally clueless about how to keep this moving, alive. The meeting convener asked me 10 minutes ago, before the meeting started if “I had some tricks to elicit participation” Should I be offended? I contributed just to share, the giant post it notes. But I should have not. I gave up on convincing them what kind of planning, design, skills it takes to run a successful meeting. I think I should remove this validation” said someone. I like validations. I long for them. Why should we remove them? I do not speak Farsi. How would you feel in a meeting with people reviewing a document in Farsi? My foreign language skills do not work. I say potato, you say “EALG after soap request containing IPS attributes”.
Maybe I should take foreign language lessons. Where do I go to learn their lingo? Should I become a techie myself? And end up dressing that way? If I want to escape reality I may turn myself to ascetic life or radical politics. Why should I run away from the world to code a database? Wait a minute, it is not fair! They only exhibit a markedly different mindset, more analytical, mathematical, sequential coupled with dry humor and an amazingly low warmth in human relations. So what? Why is that worse than a friendly, synthetic, more random and emotional mind? In the meantime the meeting continues. I still do not understand the guy when he speaks: a deadly combination: strong accent and incomprehensible content in his prose. Shall I take a break? Wait! A moment of sanity! Someone started talking about lunch!
