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Friendly reminder. Contempt, arrogance, character attacks, and the like are not Radical Candor or valid forms of criticism...These are forms of Obnoxious Aggression.
Kim Scott
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Kim Scott
@kimballscott
Author of Radical Candor & Radical Respect.
- My son at the dinner table tonight: "Tradition is just peer pressure from dead people."
- A friend's child insisted on sleeping with infant sibling, explaining, "The baby still knows how to talk to God, and I am forgetting how."
- Replying to @kimballscottMy son at the breakfast table when I showed him all these likes: "Mom, I didn't come up with that it's a YouTube meme!" Me: "Steve Jobs said real artists steal." Son: "That is BS." Once again, he is correct. Credit goes to YouTube meme. Tho I still think my son is great.
- Replying to @gkates and @JuliaDavisNewsAnyone who said something against Putin would be risking arrest. Why would you do that because a stranger approached you on the street? Under Stalin these kinds of random questions from strangers were "provocations;" if you answered wrong, you got sent to the Gulag.
- Putin will only stops when he is stopped. Putin only understands strength and action, not words. And Putin is not as powerful as he looks. We must stop him now--it's already too late for too many. Brilliant piece from @olgatokariuk A New Ukraine Emerges
- Replying to @technology and @emilychangtvBias and prejudice shouldn't override merit in hiring decisions. But they do, every single day.
- Replying to @kimballscott2 more clarifications: 1/ I'm not hating on your traditions or your ancestors. 2/ Given that some of MY ancestors were slave owners I'm glad my son questions them & their traditions, offers up his Radical Candor, so he and I can learn to atone.
- This is so horrifying to see, but important that we know what is happening. My heart breaks for what is happening in Ukraine. Tell your brother to stay safe. We will help you recover and rebuild when this war is over.
- A young woman told me Radical Candor had been a lifeline after she became a manager and found it so hard and isolating. We both teared up. I felt as though I’d reached back in time and given my younger self a hand. It may have been the most gratifying moment of my career...
- My great aunt decided to teach herself to paint when she turned 85. Look what she painted just before her 90th birthday.
- Replying to @ajbauerOne of the many mistakes White liberals made in the civil rights movement was to blame racism on the south, as a way of absolving themselves/denial. I grew up in Memphis. I thought I was leaving racism/sexism behind when I went to Princeton. Imagine my disillusion...
