A method I've found that helps when dealing with all sorts of people -- don't parse people's output according to your standards, parse it according to their sta

A method I've found that helps when dealing with all sorts of people -- don't parse people's output according to your standards, parse it according to their standards. (It helps when they've published their standards, as Linus has) This approach has made it quite easy for me to get along with people from all sorts of cultures, as well as all types of people within a culture (aspergers springs to mind) -- where others think "he said something that is offensive in my culture, he must hate me", I think "he said something which is acceptable in his own culture, he must think I'm doing ok"; or around my aspergers friends "she's being rude and insensitive, what a bitch" vs "she's being far more empathetic than she normally is, she must be trying really hard because she cares"