Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
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Are You a Jerk, or a Liar?
Here are 13 things that every skilled chaos-surfer understands:
- How something appears to you may not be how it is.
- What is said or shown may not be all there is.
- What is true for me may not be true for you.
- The same words may mean different things to different people.
- What people say may not be what they mean. Because comms is lossy and language is me
Packy McCormick • visakan veerasamy on Substack
Failing to prioritize stupidity over malice causes things like paranoia. Always assuming malice puts you at the center of everyone else’s world. This is an incredibly self-centered approach to life. In reality, for every act of malice, there is almost certainly far more ignorance, stupidity, and laziness.
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
“I can’t tell whether this is so obvious it doesn’t merit mentioning, or so fundamental it’s hard to see.”
Cate Hall
https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/are-you-a-jerk-or-a-liar
Asking vs guessing in relation to the workplace. Pretty sure this connects to stuff Haley Nahman has written but just thought of it when reading Cate Hall
https://usefulfictions.substack.com/p/are-you-a-jerk-or-a-liar
Angry people are always in search of others they can be angry at. Anger is unattractive. Anger is stupid. A person who is perpetually angry is always mishearing and misreading others. He misperceives what the other person said so he can have a pretext to go on the vicious attack. Worst of all, anger escalates. People are always talking about ventin
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