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by productceo 1480 days ago
A professional medical doctor will make more medical mistakes than I will.

Let us try our best to treat them charitably, forgive the mistakes we see, and provide input to help them do their work even better!

I had success working with Design/UX or any other specialists acknowledging that they spent more time thinking about it than I have, and that, of course, they will be the final decision makers on whether to accept or reject any inputs I give, before providing any feedback or ideas I have. Also, taking the attitude, not of "Let me teach you X", but of "Teach me whether you considered X and, if you have, why you haven't tried X yet".

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A professional medical doctor will make much less medical mistakes than you will in a medical field.
You probably misunderstood: gp won't make mistakes in a medical field because he's not a medical professional, so he won't do anything in the medical field.

The same sometimes applies to designers and developers: if developers don't design, then of course they won't make bad designs.

The gist of it all is: don't ridicule people for mistakes, even if they're in their supposed field of expertise. Just let them know they've made a mistake if you see one.

I see ggp point as a beatiful love-speech in a context that is completely different from what was discussed.