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Hi vincent_s, Thanks a lot for sharing this! I actually deleted my Instagram, along with Facebook, but I've been considering setting up some kind of photo blog where I write out detailed descriptions of the set and setting for every photo I posted there during my time on The Website. Real life is messy, and what's important is the trendline, not individual data points. For example, if this was ten years ago, I'd be h…
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To my mind, I think toxic is a byword for 'extreme behaviour'; and furthermore, extreme behaviour is often a symptom of a personality disorder at its most pronounced.
Like toxic skiing? Or toxic mountain climbing? Toxic marathon running?
I consider YouTube comments to be an example of "toxic positivity". YouTube are using AI to only show "postive" comments first, but the overall effect is a bizarre cultish "uncanny valley" approximation of how a real community react.
I pity anyone who doesn't already have a big subscription list of the small segment of quality YouTubers.
I agree with greatly dislike this, on the surface... but this article suffers from basically the same thing itself?! > I asked our Customer Success Champion, Natasha, about this topic. Empathy is one of her many superpowers. Groan ! ... unless I misunderstood it... now I'm wondering if the 'think positive' lead image was used unironically..?
I had a peer who constantly referred to one of their employees as a “unicorn” for doing basic tasks. I felt bad for the employee.
I try to never work for people who call me a “rock star” or who refer to their employees as rock stars. (I’d make exceptions to work in the music industry)
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Completely agree! This was disjointed and didn't have a point. Wish I could downvote.
Part of the disjointedness comes from the writer's apparent obsession with over-simple language and very short sentences made by chopping up longer sentences. It's a good example of what happens when inexperienced writers rely on readability tools like Readable (it's on the Readable blog).
I get why they want you to simplify your righting, but iirc they tend to want you to target a 9th grade level and if I remember correctly when I was a senior half the people in that class could barely fucking read.
One thing I could use is an autocorrect that works. My phone things it’s appropriate to randomly change worlds like die->sue but is helpless when some other word is a single character off.
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OTOH, it’s useful to know when your colleagues are struggling, either professionally or personally. It puts their reactions into context and helps anticipating their performance. If they’re struggling, they will not be giving their best show, as will you and as will I. We’ll all drop the ball, be slower,… and knowing I should expect that helps me, because I can try to cover some of their bases, as will they when I’m…
If you can provide those kinds of affordances to someone after they've informed you that they're "struggling, either professionally or personally", then you can do it without making them have that conversation as a precondition to your charity. If someone is struggling , that means they're vulnerable. Forcing them to take a gamble by enlarging the "surface area" of the risk that they're exposed to (by advertising it…
I agree that it comes with vulnerability and risk. However, I believe that the way out here is reducing the risk, by building team structures where people can talk about these issues without being punished for it. That is: Teams where people are not expected to be robots and interchangeable, but humans with strength, weaknesses and temporary or permanent challenges that need addressing.
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To my mind, I think toxic is a byword for 'extreme behaviour'; and furthermore, extreme behaviour is often a symptom of a personality disorder at its most pronounced.
Except then it also becomes a label to classify the undesirable as extremist.
Hi vincent_s, Thanks a lot for sharing this! I actually deleted my Instagram, along with Facebook, but I've been considering setting up some kind of photo blog where I write out detailed descriptions of the set and setting for every photo I posted there during my time on The Website. Real life is messy, and what's important is the trendline, not individual data points. For example, if this was ten years ago, I'd be h…
Is this a troll or a GPT or wrong thread?
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I don't see any evidence that the writer has that level of self-awareness. I'm increasingly beginning to suspect that business culture is inherently hallucinogenic. Between title inflation (everyone is an "executive" or maybe a "champion" and has "superpowers"), emotional distortions (don't be too negative, don't be too positive, never be sure where the line is or what the correct emotional state is), and perpetual o…
I wonder if you have any self-awareness about the toxicity of making a presumptuous and insulting comment about me, someone you don't know, based only on an article I wrote about toxicity... Or maybe you are just that uncaring about the impact you may have on someone's day? I can take valid criticism and have read the critique on here with genuine interest. However, I don't believe this comment about 'the writer' is…
If you want constructive advice: try to write in the same way that you would talk. Shallowly, that means read your writing out loud – what Flaubert called his 'gueulade' – or, even better, vice versa: write down your spoken thoughts. More deeply it means not saying anything that you wouldn't say in real life. Get to the point, ditch the fluff, treat it like a (garrulous, one-sided) phone call. Have your point constantly at the front of your mind, and only say what's absolutely necessary to explain or justify it. It will improve your writing immensely.
Oh, and read Orwell's 'Politics and the English Language': https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli.... If pressed for time, then particularly the last third or so. His advice is the best you can ever hear as a writer. Reflect on your good fortune: by writing this, you've now identified what makes good writing.
Just using the word "toxic" as a binary classifier of "things I don't like" is a problem. That includes people not being positive enough.