Too many lords, not enough stewards
Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 1, 2018 21:52 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: Too many lords, not enough stewards by rodgerd
Parent article: Too many lords, not enough stewards
I'm glad I was able to bring some amusement to your life, but I fear it might have just been a misunderstanding.
The reason for being polite and respectful is not because people might be fragile, but because people are easily distracted - they hear the loudest message and have to focus to hear other messages.
If you are impolite or disrespectful, people will hear that and might miss your intended message. If you want your message to be heard, then present it in a way that lets people focus on it - ideally in a way that draws people towards it.
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Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 1, 2018 22:15 UTC (Thu) by gracinet (subscriber, #89400) [Link]
Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 1, 2018 23:22 UTC (Thu) by msnitzer (guest, #57232) [Link]
Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 2, 2018 3:14 UTC (Fri) by gracinet (subscriber, #89400) [Link]
I genuinely enjoyed Neil's comment a lot for I feel it's great wisdom, not only for its pleasant self-reference or its rhetorical structure. I suppose we all know more or less that starting a fight is definitely not the good way to solve an issue, yet I'd never laid a finger on it so clearly.
Anyway, I will definitely try and think "focus, what's the goal here?" in the future to help me avoid escalating tensions in my teamwork.
Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 8, 2018 10:47 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]
As a retired maintainer, Neil speaks from experience. And the community he led is a happy one, in my experience.
Cheers,
Wol
Too many lords, not enough stewards
Posted Feb 9, 2018 2:00 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]