[robertk]

In theory I agree with you. Unfortunately this is a very, um, privileged way of viewing this aspect of the world. A lifetime of selection bias clouds, wherefrom this strategy works for you, but would not if tried by an other.

[elefanten]

How do you know it’s not the opposite? That a lifetime of telling yourself it would be rejected ensures you never take risky chances that can drive success?

Your assumption presumes just as much with similar effects.

[site-packages1]

I have seen many cases in my career where people with less power in an engagement thoughtfully but thoroughly disagree and end up getting relocated off their team, demoted, or in effect nullified from having any further input. I’ve seen this enough to have noticed that it’s often women who seem to be put in this position.

I’ve never had the issues, as the prototypical HN poster demographic, and agree that the GP (?) post works for me, but fundamentally understand it’s also a strategy that can disproportionately lead to seriously bad outcomes for people in particular demographics.

[bawolff]

At the same time, if you are really as timid and as unassertive as this article suggests, it will probably have a negative impact on your career.