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by lijok 833 days ago
The line of thinking you're showcasing is exactly of the type I've had to deal with in so many companies before, and is the real energy vampire.

Yeah, our turnover rate is 300% and people are crying in meetings, but please ensure your concerns are raised elegantly, with many euphemisms for conveying urgency, and above all, please ensure by raising your concerns you are not impacting the roadmap.

That kind of low-energy "platitudes driven" communication around issues is exactly what leads to insane dysfunctions like ones we see at Activision and every startup that failed before getting to build an MVP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwTplsSvRuI

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They did not asked for platitudes nor euphemisms. They asked to reduce resentment vomit that lowers actual informational value.

If you exaggerate and state things in as emotionally insulting way as possible, you are not saying things as they are. You are exaggerating and burdening everyone else with need to disentangle your emotions from actual content.

This is exactly what I'm talking about.