Computer Programmers: Obsessed With Efficiency
Do you have your own little \u201ctricks\u201d\x9d? That is, ways of doing things that are faster than how you used to do them? Well, congratulations, you\u2019re something of an efficiency expert. And if you can picture an assembly line of people putting products together, then you\u2019ve seen one way of increasing productivity. But some of us are really, really obsessed with efficiency and often those people are computer programmers. Some of them, as you\u2019ll hear from Clive Thompson (author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World) have even developed ways to make their love lives more efficient! Sounds impossible but I think you\u2019ll enjoy hearing what some coders are up to. Why are they obsessed with efficiency? Do they score highly on Conscientiousness in the Big Five personality score? Would Frederick Taylor \u2013 founder of scientific management \u2013 feel a kindred spirit in them? Let\u2019s find out.