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1. Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:12:17 JST Wolf480pl

   How to hold each other to a high standard without contempt?

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 07:12:17 JST Kuba Orlik

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     @wolf480pl could you elaborate? What connection do you draw between high standards and contempt?

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 20:07:15 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Kuba Orlik

     @kuba

     But if you don't tell people that it's ok to be the person doing things wrong, then they'll do things wrong, and you can encourage them to make things a bit better, but as soon as there's pressure, everyone will be ok with delivering a subpar solution "because we don't have time", since it's ok to do things wrong...

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 20:07:15 JST Kuba Orlik

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     @wolf480pl feeling superior doesn't have to involve contempt. Some people are objectively better at certain things than other people. Noting that can be just observing reality, not necesarily in a contemptious way

   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 20:07:16 JST Wolf480pl

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     • Kuba Orlik

     @kuba when you see someone do things wrong, you can say "see that person doing things wrong? don't be like that person" but that's a very exhausting way of saying it, it's much easier to say "see this idiotic code? don't be like the idiot who wrote it". And then build a culture of people who are feeling superior by not being the idiot who wrote that particular idiotic code.

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