I keep my statement about Drake. However. It was a good read. This shit is true. I can picture this exact shit happening in my old work team if a dude with some thug tendencies walked in. People would be uncomfortable.
Yup, generally speaking professional environments and thug tendencies don't mix well. That's because thug tendencies put people on edge instead of letting them concentrate on the work.
I don't bring much of my personality into my relationships with clients either. It's one thing to expose the human side a bit when starting conversations. It's another thing to fly blindly down the aggressive and self-aggrandizing tunnel of "Keepin It 100 For All My Real Software Ninjas".
To quote the author:
> "In case you’re an ignorant muhfukka and can’t grasp the significance of this or can’t see what’s so bad about it, then pay attention you bastard."
I only wrote thug tendencies cuz that's how the author described him self.. or somethin like that. Do you pull out fuckin dictionaries when you talk to people in real life?
> Because at a pretty young age I had acquired a set of skills that put me in places and situations that I was not culturally prepared to enter.
He talks about his thug background to get to this conclusion. His past life interactions didn't "prepare" him to not make office people uncomfortable with him being just him. And of course, this is not his fault, but the people treating him badly. And guess what? This is what stops a lot of black people in tech.
