@carnage4life Find/replace “brutal honesty” with “feeling spicy” and now you’ve got the 3 hour conversation with my product manager colleague that was how I ended my my Friday. 🌶️🥵

Brutal honesty has the upside of clearing out uncertainty and imprecision, but in the same way that a nuclear blast has the upside of taking all the pollen out of the air. There’s just that little side effect of the collateral damage.

It’s hard for me to figure out how to address this kind of behavior when it feels like it’s rewarded as “truth telling.” It’s easy to conflate empathetic, nuanced communication with “politics,” or “being indirect.”