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Despite feeling this way, any time I go back and read my own recent comment history, I am shocked to find that most of my comments are still corrections/disagreements.
Critical thinking is overrated, constructive thinking is underrated. Too many turn into critics rather than creators because saying to the world "this is what I stand for, this is what I created" is so much harder than to simply tear someone elses down. The US is actually much better than Europe but unfortunately academic disciplines and craftmanship are mostly separated in the education system when they should never…
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the d…
The article is completely wrong. There's hardly any negativity on the Internet at all, and none of it comes from our training.
The article is completely wrong. There's hardly any negativity on the Internet at all, and none of it comes from our training.
Your comment is worthless without at least one footnote with a link to a published study.
The negativity of the internet bothers me as well. Somewhat amusingly, I find it is often difficult to express agreement with someone without confusing them, there seems to be an assumption that if you are replying to someone you are probably disagreeing with them. Despite feeling this way, any time I go back and read my own recent comment history, I am shocked to find that most of my comments are still corrections/d…
Critical thinking is overrated, constructive thinking is underrated. Too many turn into critics rather than creators because saying to the world "this is what I stand for, this is what I created" is so much harder than to simply tear someone elses down. The US is actually much better than Europe but unfortunately academic disciplines and craftmanship are mostly separated in the education system when they should never…
The negativity of the internet bothers me as well. Somewhat amusingly, I find it is often difficult to express agreement with someone without confusing them, there seems to be an assumption that if you are replying to someone you are probably disagreeing with them. Despite feeling this way, any time I go back and read my own recent comment history, I am shocked to find that most of my comments are still corrections/d…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your comment is worthless without at least one footnote with a link to a published study.
In this case, academic research is totally irrelevant to the parent commenter's point.
1. I say this anecdotally, of course.