insular

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I should print this out and frame this on my wall: "Why our industry is insular and tunnel visioned.

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relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"

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adjective

relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"

adjective

suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels

adjective

narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for insular.

adjective

relating to or characteristic of or situated on an island; "insular territories"; "Hawaii's insular culture"

adjective

suggestive of the isolated life of an island; "an exceedingly insular man; so deeply private as to seem inaccessible to the scrutiny of a novelist"- Leonard Michaels

adjective

narrowly restricted in outlook or scope; "little sympathy with parochial mentality"; "insular attitudes toward foreigners"

Example sentences

I should print this out and frame this on my wall: "Why our industry is insular and tunnel visioned.

It can sometimes get too insular with valley-type techies here.

The insular cultures that result from those tactics is just a natural byproduct.

Google's insular behavior goes all the way up the food chain to how Page behaves and operates.

You risk creating a kind of insular belief system where any threat can be transformed into reinforcement.

"...is that it highlighted just how insular and superior a lot of Apple developers act and feel.

You do realize that every programming community has "dogmatic and insular" people, right?

It's an insular culture, with little cross fertilization with the rest of society, that keeps telling the same story over and over.

Political ranking rather than performance leads to some incredibly insular work places.

Perhaps the opposite will occur and with the decline in mass media we will become increasingly insular and narcissistic.

I'm afraid that making HN invite-only would just create a more insular community, prone to inside jokes, self-referential memes, and an "us vs. them" mentality.

I missed the Objective-C community precisely because I had always found it quite unreligious and practical: to each his own when it comes to development -- I hope that with its latest success it hasn't become more dogmatic and insular.