On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:35 -0800, Dean S. Messing wrote: > Thomas Cameron wrote: > : On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 19:18 -0800, Leslie Satenstein wrote: > : > I have been in IT for 40 years, and in that time I learned a lesson or > : > two. > : > : <snip most excellent observations and advice> > : > : I don't actually buy into this, but it an interesting take on > : communications with really bright people: > : > : http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html > : > : Again, I don't think there is any excuse for not at least starting out > : being nice - I believe in the whole "do unto others as you'd have them > : do unto you" thing. But it is an interesting point of view. > > Thanks for the "tact filter" link! I think the author his hit on a > little piece of wisdom here. > > But he may have missed one type of person: the person who (for > whatever reason) has no "tact filter" at all. Thus much of what he > says is offensive to normal people (and he has no sense that it is) > and much he hears from normal people (no matter how tactfully spoken) > is offensive to him. I known a few people like this. > > Dean > I'm reading this too, you know ;-) Les H
