Yeah. The author has a good point about _the specific way the co-worker went about things_ being wrong. But there was also a lack of understanding to explain

Yeah. The author has a good point about _the specific way the co-worker went about things_ being wrong. But there was also a lack of understanding to explain things. I'm assuming we, the blog audience, had a better explanation for "no, just no" than the co-worker did. See another post by this author for a similar tone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22277582 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22277582. Maybe work right now is tough. It sounds that way. All that said, a solid takeaway is that sometimes people are naive and you need to say no. The next step is: alongside saying no, ask what their aim is. You're saying no to the solution and you don't know the problem.