vblplan

I have a hard time understanding the negativity about this article. When a mainstream publication says "extroverts do X", the general public understands that it does not mean "all extroverts do X".

We have all seen the damage that some extroverts can do to meetings, where they shamelessly namedrop half understood concepts that need to be refuted one by one.

We have all seen open source projects being taken over by a mediocre, loud-mouthed politician cabal, who slowly become the project's public face on Twitter and quash dissent with lies and persistence.

Of course extroverts are needed in diplomacy, etc. But how to keep them honest is an unsolved problem.