How to avoid words that promote praises and punishments and learn to give meaningful feedback and evidence of success to your colleagues.
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I can’t stand the word ‘just’.
“It’s just a quick fix”
“It’s just a small change”
Oh man, that one makes my blood boil. Particularly if it turns out they were right ...
You might find interesting this one: dev.to/meeshkan/how-to-remove-cond...
That's brilliant, thanks!
Things don't always go as planned. Because managers or superiors always ask for "just tell me when exactly", developers found a way to avoid answering that question. Soon means "I don't know, but I hope it's not going to take me the entire day/week".
If someone knew exactly when they wouldn't have told you soon. In my opinion, you should take it as a valid answer instead of pressuring for a more accurate estimation
One that gets me is: "I agree, but ... "
In other words: "I disagree, but haven't figured out a good way to tell you." Way to take the wind out of someone's sails!
I catch myself saying this sometimes, and always wish I hadn't.
The solution to well actually 🤣
The best possible response 😂 🤣
On the flip side, a better response would have been...
"I wanted to do X in Y time, but Z has been blocking."
Many "soon"s had the root causes of not wanting to be open about one own's naivety or not dared to seek help.
I'm not a fan of the word 'obviously' when explaining something.
I find it can make the recipient feel bad if they did not know what the 'obvious' thing was.
Interesting read. Can I have a list of the books you are reading about child psychology?
I'm guessing I should be reigning in those "WTF!"s during code reviews then?
Concur 100% with this as I've spent a ton of time in my career working with things other people have already created (legacy code, data wrangling, etc.).
I absolutely disagree with everything in this post. Most of the examples here are really twisting words and meaning, just to get a point across? I'm not sure what you wanted to achieve here.