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+A long-time friend pointed me to another "categorize yourself" site the 
+other day, this time it's a 
+<a href="http://www.doolwind.com/index.php?page=11"> 
+Programmer Personality Test</a>.  He pointed out that it's only 12 
+questions, wouldn't take long, and he'd be 
+interested in how I scored.  I found the questions really irritating, but 
+the results led to some interesting discussion that my friend suggested might 
+be worth a blog entry.
+
+I get either a DLSB or PLSB, depending on which arbitrary choices I make on 
+several questions where neither option is at all representative of my world 
+view.  He found this interesting, since I'm the only other person he's talked
+to about this that also got a P.  He also noted that LS seems to be very 
+strong in all the "real programmers" he knows, and wondered if that might be
+why managing programmers is so much like herding cats.
+
+One of the bits that I find so artificial about this is that the model that 
+I personally find most effective in the loner/group continuum isn't reflected 
+by the questions at all.  It's neither a "do it all myself" nor a "engage with 
+everyone before doing anything" approach.  The free software community 
+collaboration experience has proven to <em>me</em> that the most effective 
+approach is a hybrid, where you "do something" followed by engaging 
+collaborators, who may well help you decide to throw a lot away, which is ok 
+if it was a learning experience, and/or it leads to a better result.  In the 
+end, you may not even be the center of attention or "owner" of the result.
+
+In fact, often the way to get something done right is ensure that you get the
+right person to do it, which often isn't yourself... but the strategy for 
+getting the right person to do it is almost never to engage in group-think 
+before doing any work!  It seems to me that in our community, leading usually
+starts with doing, while success is related to who else gets motivated to 
+follow your lead and join in the doing...
+
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