I found this article enlightening but not as much as the feedback. The number of developers that seem to recoil at the thought of empathy as part of their job description and the reasons why they do is very interesting.
That's maybe because some believe that technical skills is the premiere quality of a technical worker.
Empathy is maybe one of the most important skill for therapist.
Maybe some developers believe that this Empathy guy is another one of these HR/Agil/Scrum Consultant making big money telling others how they should feel better and be happier in an one hour session in a big hall to tick of a check box in the employee education program when their main concern might be parking space in the morning, some hard task at work or forced attrition etc.
It also resembles patterns of loathed parasitic social middlemen who come in and insist that they are essential to what they just built and started to be successful. Anyone with actual empathy would understand why they would find such a thing suspicious or annoying - even if said middlemen are actually right as the case may be.
Especially with the implicit insult if you don't agree social trick. That really raises the "sociopath" flags and thus they get resoundingly told to get lost.
Empathy is maybe one of the most important skill for therapist.
Maybe some developers believe that this Empathy guy is another one of these HR/Agil/Scrum Consultant making big money telling others how they should feel better and be happier in an one hour session in a big hall to tick of a check box in the employee education program when their main concern might be parking space in the morning, some hard task at work or forced attrition etc.