[mistermann]

"In order to be successful, one must project an image of success at all times."

– Buddy Kane, American Beauty

I doubt many people know this explicitly, but I think the necessary behavior is intuitive to lots of people. I suspect people "on (or near) the spectrum", which is far more common in tech circles, get their ass handed to them career wise many times because of this, because they are in some sense looking at a different version of reality than other people.