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Tim Kuehn's avatar

I've learned that it's possible to avoid negative terms like "not a put-down" and "not advocate".

Whatever I'm saying _is_ something and I should communicate that message instead of an "is not" message.

For example "not a put-down" could be "what I'm seeing could be construed as...and I don't think that was your intention" "not advocate" could be "I'm need to understand your position better".

“I mean this as a compliment.” - whatever "this" was should've been stated so it's clear it was a compliment.

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SomeUserName's avatar

This is really solid. I like it a lot. I'm going to have to be more intentional about using this method

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