The person who wrote that tweet is not a developer.
The conclusions this VC has drawn about what makes developers productive is Voodoo.
He's observed people who he thinks are productive, and gathered together his observations/prejudices/misjudgements about those people and concluded that the Voodoo is the magic. I'm sure there's some great analogy out there about drawing conclusions about how something works based on misunderstood observations, but I can't think of that analogy.
EDIT: utter and complete garbage
Surely this is not written by a developer?
Update: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirani/
The person who wrote that tweet is not a developer.
The conclusions this VC has drawn about what makes developers productive is Voodoo.
He's observed people who he thinks are productive, and gathered together his observations/prejudices/misjudgements about those people and concluded that the Voodoo is the magic. I'm sure there's some great analogy out there about drawing conclusions about how something works based on misunderstood observations, but I can't think of that analogy.