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It's still personal: it's "authors of the document" vs everyone else. Often the "everyone else" have not been hired yet.
by zmj 7y ago
It's still personal: it's "authors of the document" vs everyone else. Often the "everyone else" have not been hired yet.
- shados 7y ago> Often the "everyone else" have not been hired yet. And they may never get hired and you still have to fight with them. I'm, honestly, TERRIFIED of what "thought leaders" may post on hacker news/twitter/reddit tonight, tomorrow, next week. The moment I see one of them suggest something that just wouldn't work for us, I -know- I'm going to have to fight 50 people at work soon who drank the koolaid.
- novok 7y agoIf something is written down before you were even hired and it says no, then you know that the people are saying 'no' not because they don't like you or some other petty interpersonal political reason, but because of the actual technical reasons or some overarching political reason unrelated to you, personally. When something isn't personal, it diffuses a lot of emotional tension. Our monkey brains jump to taking things personally way too easily probably as some sort of early tribal instinct for survival. I don't really understand what you mean by personal otherwise? I was implying 'personal' was specific person personal.