> If you want to go out of your way to interpret things as uncharitably as possible, you'll find yourself missing out on a lot of potential wisdom.
Thank you for that line --- I may steal it :)
> If you want to go out of your way to interpret things as uncharitably as possible, you'll find yourself missing out on a lot of potential wisdom.
Thank you for that line --- I may steal it :)
It's a thing that clicked for me several years ago and that I think about all the time now.
Our software engineer mindset tends to immediately put us in "criticize" mode and with social media comment threads, there's a tendency where a single correct critical observation leads people to discard an entire article.
But that's dumb. We should read critically, of course, but we should apply that in a finer-grained way so that we ignore the parts of an article that are wrong and try to learn from the parts that aren't.
There is often a lot of baby in that bathwater we are so quick to discard.