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Socially, the easiest improvement you can make is to banish the word "just" from your vocabulary. It's very easy to fall victim to: in code review, technical di
by Etheryte 6y ago
Socially, the easiest improvement you can make is to banish the word "just" from your vocabulary. It's very easy to fall victim to: in code review, technical discussions, retrospectives. "Why don't we just X instead of Y?" as opposed to "Is there a reason why we X instead of Y?". "Just" leaves a lot of room to come across as condescending or aggressive, to be misunderstood, and more. There are many things you can do to foster a fruitful professional environment, but this change has a huge payoff for the effort made.
- znpy 6y agoI kinda agree, but because most of the times I've seen using that form ("why don't we just do/use X instead?") It was from somebody that had read that $bigcompany has done/used X for their use case, but they had no direct experience themselves -- meaning that they had no idea about the kind of problems that X would bring and/or ACTUALLY solve. HEY, WHY DON'T WE JUST END WORLD HUNGER?
- funerr 6y agoHmm it reminds me of the culture of fostering changes that are wise" in a company, but on the other hand not being arrogant. I always wrote in a notebook the things that we're weird or off in a new place and then after 3-4 months I would bring the issues that I still saw relevant. That criticism was much more welcomed.