introverts

It has been reported that a full 40% of executives describe themselves as introverts...

There are also social introverts who don't want to turn half of their co-worker interactions into awkward conversations.

It seems plausible that extroverts would find them a much more novel and disturbing experience than introverts.

Most Lovecraft characters are introverts much like the geeks, and selfie takers of our auspicious era (meh).

What would have been more interesting would be a comparison of the leadership styles of introverts vs.

It is very stressful for some introverts to conjure up a conversation with total strangers, event with people they know.

These days society seems to be run by extroverts, for extroverts, and little if any regard is given to introverts.

And community might not be helpful for HN introverts, but most people are extroverts.

The article mostly just reiterates the strengths of introverts, which you can get from reading about Meyers/Briggs personality types or similar sources.

Lowering the friction to increase social participation is precisely catering towards introverts, from my perspective, and that is what Like and +1 do.

You're saying that an article claiming that introverts have strengths that can make them good leaders is invalid because people need communication skills.

I guess it should include mostly small groups (circles?) because introverts usually don't large social groups.

There's an assumption that introverts should be doing other things like engineering, that introverts don't have the "people skills" necessary to be great leaders.

I think it's the "thinking out loud" part before you have a solution, that can fluster a lot of introverts.

I would put the purported plus of introverts "listening to people speak" a bit differently.

If you're not 100% about talking and interacting with everyone you meet in the hallway, you "don't fit in with their culture." Southwest: Introverts need not apply.

Introverts become uncomfortable with too much external stimulus and thus prefer to isolate themselves from excessive stimulus.