Talk Given by John Ousterhout About Sustaining Relationships
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Talk Given by John Ousterhout About Sustaining Relationships
No relationship can ever come to a point where it is not a problem. Or if sometimes you see a relationship coming to a point where it is no longer a problem, that simply means it is not a relationship anymore. The relationship has disappeared—the fighters are tired, they have started accepting things as they are. They are bored; they don’t want to
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