Cat Hicks on Nostr: This last week I presented my research on Brilliance traps and Contest cultures on ...

This last week I presented my research on Brilliance traps and Contest cultures on software teams. To my knowledge, despite a wide interest that software research has in characterizing the rates & impact of things like toxic cultures for developers, and important research has started to dive into e.g. the presence of social cues in coding work, there's been little work if any that brings up-to-date psychological theory into asking how this is perpetuated beyond individual identity bias.