Thought for the day: dealing with people
April 21st, 2009When dealing with people (whether friends, family, customers or suppliers), remember: there is an absolute world of difference between “I think that’s rubbish” and “it is rubbish”.
One is a statement of opinion, the other is likely to get people’s backs up. Words and phrasing are important to people.
It’s why naming in computer science is hard.
It’s why people are better than machines.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Massive difference isn’t it! I make an effort to *hear* “it is rubbish” as “I think it’s rubbish” so I don’t get my back up.
Also, people are just machines. Or maybe what I mean is: *I think* people are machines.
But they are :)
April 21st, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Baz, sorry if I got your back up.
April 21st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Peter – not aimed at you specifically – just people in general.
Or rather, people who work with computers in general.