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In my experience, people being nice instead of being honest leads to millions of dollars and man-decades of time being wasted.
by marcoperaza 10y ago
In my experience, people being nice instead of being honest leads to millions of dollars and man-decades of time being wasted.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoIt's not often an either or, you can be polite and honest.
- marcoperaza 10y agoPoliteness is a good thing to strive for much of the time, but I also think that no-bullshit directness is just as important, if not more so. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The less direct we become as a people, the more sensitive people become to it, the more offense they take to it, the less direct we become, and so forth. Basically, Linus is a valiant anti-bullshit warrior.
- dastbe 10y agoyeah but you can be anti-bullshit and not be a jerk.