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by peterangular 2547 days ago
> I'm starting to get better at sensing if people just want to win a discussion or want to learn & teach. But I wished I learnt it sooner.

The older I get the more I see this as a _critical_ soft skill to have in the corporate world. I wish I could go back to myself in earlier engineering roles and say, "just stop talking - these people don't care, they're only here for the narrative."