The Engineer as Zombie or Vampire

The Sunday New York Times Magazine has an interesting article for Halloween on segmenting the population into two camps - - the zombies or the vampires (article by Heather Havrilesky, "Steve Jobs: Vampire.  Bill Gates: Zombie").  Provided below is the general overview of the segmentation:

Are you a Zombie?

• Extroverts
• Like big rowdy crowds
• Comfortable in clusters and teams - - love to volunteer
• The true meaning of life can only be determined by a collaborative crowd
• Love committees and sub-committees
• Leaders and fanatics
• Awkward and clumsy
• They like a good chase
• Apparently never sleeping
• Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are examples 
• Charlie Sheen is a famous zombie who mistakenly think they're vampires

Are you a Vampire?

• Smooth and charismatic
• Solitary and antisocial
• Masters of seduction
• Narcissists, the artists, the experts, the loners, moody
• Workaholics and neurotic
• Internally directed
• Aloof and a little bit hedonistic
• Doodle during meetings
• Love watching old movies and reading books
• Steve Jobs and A-rod are examples (it's the New York paper)
• Bill Clinton is a famous vampire who mistakenly think they're zombies

In a world of either zombies or vampires, we (as engineers in the collective) need to settle into one camp or another.  If we don't - - you just end up as dead meat.