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051: Introvert Architect: Bug or feature?

Review of  Susan Cain's  book Quiet, with own additions such as my personal story and level of maturity around introversion and extroversion at work. The weekly mood Unexpectedly, I've been able to catch up with a couple of project tasks left behind during the past few weeks, and even found the time to look a bit outside the box. In his talk  and  articles  called The Architect Elevator , Gregor Hohpe defines the Architect person as a special "Animal", and the Architect role as a "Connector". The latest is not a surprising term from one of the fathers of  Enterprise Integration Patterns  (EIP). However, I find the first one intriging because it conveys that Architects belongs to a minority of people who might not allways be well accepted or understood. I recently read  Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking , a very popular  Essay  by Susan Cain (2012). Although I am not used to making book reviews, I...