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An Introvert's Guide to Being Sociable: Faux Openness to Feedback

Ambrose Little on October 25, 2018

Introduction Some time ago I wrote a post about how to be awesome without being a jerk. It has some concrete suggestions, which is helpf...
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Ambrose Little • Edited

Ah, good point. I didn't really suggest how to deal with meanies. As a one-time dev tools product manager, yeah, I've had to deal with that. If it's in person, you say, "thank you. That's good feedback." And file it away in ignore bucket in your head, while smiling. :) Don't engage or argue! (a.k.a., don't feed the trolls)

That said, sometimes there are gems of valid feedback even when hostilely communicated, so try to keep an open mind. Sometimes you can even turn angry folks around, if you find the underlying feedback insightful and are able to show that you care and (even better) can make it better.

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Ryan Palo

Think of needing to use a manual as a failure of Design. It's not always, but many times it is.

I really, really like these sentences.

Thanks for sharing this :)