[cheatsheet]

It has been a paranoid hypothesis of mine that the best programmers wind up programming people instead.

[AnimalMuppet]

That doesn't have to be paranoid. That's exactly what good management is (also coaching). Done right, it's very valuable.

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) at least at the moment, it's outside my skill set...

[cheatsheet]

But how do I know that I want my mind to be the way X wants my mind to be, without shaping it like that and biasing my assessment afterwards? How do I know whether I wanted my mind to be this way? How did my mind get this way?

I know it's paranoia but sometimes I think ideas are more like viruses in more than the colloquial internet memetic sense. Like the brain literally has difficulty letting go of ideas because of the ways various ideas may alter brain structure and consequently influence perception.