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Discussion on: Fellow developer: The lack of empathy may be killing your career

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Jamie

Thomas Betts talks about this in his blog post A Great Engineer Needs The Liberal Arts. His thesis is that Liberal Arts helps teach empathy and the ability to understand someone else's point of view.

I'd definitely recommend giving his blog post a read.

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Davidson Sousa

Thanks for the link, Jamie. I heard something similar from one of my professors years ago: Simply put, he pointed that tech people should study a bit of philosophy and sociology to become more "human". Maybe it's gonna happen some day...