Ask HN: How do you hackers maintain personal relationships?

[just_throw_away]

I learned to 6 years ago, Although I don't consider myself a decent programmer, learning to code has helped me a great deal in understanding problems and approaching problems systematically.

Most of the world seems to be thinking not based off of logic but through thinking patterns inherited from their environment/society. Especially in personal relationships people are generally not as logic driven. In my life sometimes my friends and girlfriend are sloppy, sometimes I am sloppy but I seem to be making decisions based on logic on everything and completely forgot my old lame way of thinking. Although I have a healthy social life, have a lot of laughs every day. I get called machine or robot sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid they are right. (Not literally!)

How do you hackers/programmers who are driven by logic keep friendships and relationships?

[HiroshiSan]

I don't believe humans are logical creatures otherwise learning advanced math would come easy (I'm sure there is a flaw in that type of thinking). Do you happen to be on the autism spectrum?

Unfortunately I'm not driven by logic and I have difficulty maintaining friendships. They are work. It takes a lot of time to build a good friendship. It takes a lot of effort from both parties to regularly check up and see how the other is doing. Scheduling hangouts, etc.