http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm
Achievers, Explorers, Socializers, and Killers.
Which kind are you?
How would you build an organization or a world that suits all four types?
You see the overlap to Gervais principle
Achievers->Clueless
Explorers->Technocrats
Socializers->Losers
Killers->Sociopaths
Similar overlap to ERE types
Salary->Clueless
Renaissance->Explorer
Work->Loser
Business->Sociopath
Bartle types --- an alternative to the Gervais principle
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jennypenny
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I really like your inclusion of the Renaissance label, Jacob as it is the one I personally really identify with.
Having spent my whole career in a semiconductor tech co in Silicon Valley, I really see a difference between Techies and Renaissance and think they each deserve their own categories.
I typically find the older engineers who are true techies and comfortable with not going up to executive management (usually because they started on the path and failed!) to be explorers. These are the guys that crawl around electronics swap meets and HAM radio outlets on lunch break and weekends. I've also noticed these tend to be people who consume at modest levels, have fuck you money handy, call management and other stuff bullshit overtly and freely quote Dilbert in meetings. But they continue to come in to work because the company gives them a billion dollar wafer fab to play with and a customer set that provides the opportunity for difficult challenges.
As many of these guys are very focused on only electronics, I don't think they fit the renaissance ideal despite being explorers. I'm not sure I'm comfortable calling them businessmen, in recognition of their invested assets allowing them to be decoupled from their job/salary, either.
Having spent my whole career in a semiconductor tech co in Silicon Valley, I really see a difference between Techies and Renaissance and think they each deserve their own categories.
I typically find the older engineers who are true techies and comfortable with not going up to executive management (usually because they started on the path and failed!) to be explorers. These are the guys that crawl around electronics swap meets and HAM radio outlets on lunch break and weekends. I've also noticed these tend to be people who consume at modest levels, have fuck you money handy, call management and other stuff bullshit overtly and freely quote Dilbert in meetings. But they continue to come in to work because the company gives them a billion dollar wafer fab to play with and a customer set that provides the opportunity for difficult challenges.
As many of these guys are very focused on only electronics, I don't think they fit the renaissance ideal despite being explorers. I'm not sure I'm comfortable calling them businessmen, in recognition of their invested assets allowing them to be decoupled from their job/salary, either.