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Being frustrated with the quality of someone's work is understandable. With a bit of practice it's possible to give the same feedback, but in a way that will e
by spongebobstoes 3y ago
Being frustrated with the quality of someone's work is understandable.
With a bit of practice it's possible to give the same feedback, but in a way that will encourage and teach, instead of what this was.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoTeaching is way less efficient than filtering, unfortunately. I used to think we should strive to make everybody grow. But the more I've been confronted with hard challenges and limited resources, the more I've had to filter out. Now I lean toward "filter first, teach to what remains, repeat". And yes, being tactless is a very good filter, even give the obvious side effects.
- LastTrain 3y agoYou’re just rationalizing your own bad behavior - it’s lazy.
- BiteCode_dev 3y agoVirtue signaling is lazier.
- LastTrain 3y ago2016 terminology for shutting down people calling out bad behavior. Lazy. Going to call me a Karen next? Seriously, the world is not your sock puppet, boss. You’ll get just as much done being decent.
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- kulahan 3y agoHe did teach, if you read his words and don't take them personally - there were great explanations for why things were bad. Even still, as the man at the top, it's not really his job to encourage and teach. Nobody emails the CEO of their org with a terrible idea due to complete lack of context, and then gets support from everyone saying "I can't believe he didn't take the time out of his day to nicely explain why you were wrong here!"
- charcircuit 3y agoLinus is not the CEO of the Linux Foundation. His job is to review kernel patches. This email was not sent directly to Linus. Even if it isn't his job to encourage and teach it isn't his job to be unnecessarily rude in his reviews.
- kulahan 3y agoI know this - he's still a man whose time is in massive demand, and wasting it is a problem.