Re:Willingness to look stupid
by mattmanser on Thursday October 21, 2021 @06:48PM
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That just sounds like corpratese though, the stupid question is much better in my opinion.
With yours it's to easy for someone to switch off and not hear what you said because they think you're talking bullshit.
In two sentences you managed to cram in 5 idioms/phrases that are basically corporate babble.
They sound like someone avoiding directly admitting that they don't understand something. Unwillingness to look stupid.
Re:Willingness to look stupid
by cutemonster on Friday October 22, 2021 @05:40PM
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Gareth321 here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28955167 mentioned "basic" instead of "stupid"
I prefer to say things like "I'm not fully up to speed on this, so let's go back to basics/fundamentals for a moment", or "sometimes we're so focused on the details that we can't see the wood for the trees - let's take a step back and just run through it at a high level again".