“Be like Feynman” is great advice for 0.01% of the population, and horrible for 99% (and irrelevant to the remainder). In order to be valued for bluntness, one must be correct insanely often. Otherwise, you have to share evidence rather than conclusions, and couching it in more pleasant terms makes it much more tolerable (again, for most but not all).
I do want to react to:
There, you don’t have to worry whether people don’t like you and are planning to harm your interests
Wait, that’s if THEY CANNOT lie, not if you choose not to. Unilateral simplicity in a complex world does not have very many advantages. Further, nobody has to worry about anything. You sometimes have to consider that they will harm you, and take steps to maintain distance while you collect evidence that they’re allies. But you don’t have to worry while doing so.
“Be like Feynman” is great advice for 0.01% of the population, and horrible for 99% (and irrelevant to the remainder). In order to be valued for bluntness, one must be correct insanely often. Otherwise, you have to share evidence rather than conclusions, and couching it in more pleasant terms makes it much more tolerable (again, for most but not all).
Bluntness has nothing whatever to do with not sharing evidence, so this seems like a total red herring to me.
“Be like Feynman” is great advice for 0.01% of the population, and horrible for 99% (and irrelevant to the remainder). In order to be valued for bluntness, one must be correct insanely often. Otherwise, you have to share evidence rather than conclusions, and couching it in more pleasant terms makes it much more tolerable (again, for most but not all).
I do want to react to:
Wait, that’s if THEY CANNOT lie, not if you choose not to. Unilateral simplicity in a complex world does not have very many advantages. Further, nobody has to worry about anything. You sometimes have to consider that they will harm you, and take steps to maintain distance while you collect evidence that they’re allies. But you don’t have to worry while doing so.
Bluntness has nothing whatever to do with not sharing evidence, so this seems like a total red herring to me.