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Cake day: July 25th, 2023

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  • I’ve been thinking about this a bit more, and I realized that I talk to other people the way I talk to myself. This probably wouldn’t be a problem if I weren’t so critical of myself.

    I think I need to not only put in the effort to reread the things I write when communicating with others, but also to just be kinder to myself in my internal monologue.

    I spend too much time being frustrated inside my own head, and that makes it easy to use that same tone when I’m interacting with other people.

    Thanks for sharing your advice. I think verbalizing my thoughts the way you suggested will be really helpful.



  • Absolutely true, but it’s also more difficult to ask a good question when you don’t know anything about what you’re asking.

    People who know a lot about a topic can ask very good questions about that topic.

    The problem I see with most questions people post online is that they make too many assumptions that their audience will will magically understand the context of their question.

    Good questions require relevant context.

    Determining relevancy requires expertise.

    Expertise comes from experience.

    No matter how many questions you ask and answers you get you’ll never “understand” something until you do it.

    Instead of asking questions like “How do I do X?” people should be asking “I’m trying to accomplish X, I’ve tried Y, but I’m encountering Z. How could I resolve this?”

    I guess my rule is that you should never ask someone a question without first trying to answer it yourself.