>the trap of thinking that social skills are "bullshit"

At some point I thought this way because I wasn’t good at them and was too anxious to even attempt to work on them.

Then I realized

- ‘programming’ humans is really fun, especially when you can improve them :)

- everything else you and I do in our lives is related (directly or indirectly) to social status, so why not eliminate inefficiencies by using social skills to do the social stuff instead of lossily via technical skills and money