founder here who used to feel like this, i would say as few words as possible as a defense against being misunderstood. And i still do that as a founder because

founder here who used to feel like this, i would say as few words as possible as a defense against being misunderstood. And i still do that as a founder because when it comes to dealing with investors or customers or employees, high bandwidth communication is a superpower. we’re all distracted, nobody is paying attention! so the message has to be super clear to be effective. here, i suspect the actual issue “coldness” is lack of soft skills and empathy which is orthogonal to efficiency and effectiveness. Politicians and managers understand their audience very well as well as their psychology. There are hundreds of self help books about communication, try walking into an irl book store and browsing the self help section. Fastest path from zero to one might be a therapist (they do zoom now).