Posts connected by the communication tag.
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People praise someone for having a 100% signal-to-noise ratio. Borrowed back from the field it came from, that is not a compliment, it is an impossible measurement. What SNR actually means, why the opposite of noise is information rather than signal, and what a headset with a microphone on it says about being a transmitter and a receiver at the same time.
A long time ago a company I worked at decided that being a Relater (a Dove) was the worst personality to have. I think that judgment is wrong, and I think the whole idea of ranking personalities is wrong. Personalities are contextual: they change with the room you are in and the season of life you are in. But there is a work personality you can learn to switch into, and for engineering the Director and the Thinker are the two worth practicing.