“Calling things “professional” is just more of the same – trying to enforce some kind of convention on others by trying to claim that it’s the only acceptable way.”
“The thing is, different people act and react differently. On both sides. And I think we should recognize that and also allow for that. And sometimes it means, for example, that people interact primarily with certain people that they like more – because they are a better ‘fit’.”
“I’m sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I’m not going to start wearing ties, I’m also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what ‘acting professionally’ results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways.”
—Linus Torvalds (on the Linux-Kernel list)
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