Understand
...before you judge
"Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything."
- Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Dongle-gate
What should we do?
a) Take a deep breath, calm down and try talk to the offenders.
b) Bring up the event with conference organizers.
c) Get very angry and publicly shame them on social media.
"Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change."
- Brene Brown, expert on people and shame
How can we be better?
- Don't lash out in anger (think before we tweet).
- Don't avoid conflict.
- Problems should be addressed and engaged.
"Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving."
- Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
"When dealing with people... We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity."
- Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
Understand before you judge
By gwenf
