I used to work with someone who, as a team meeting was wrapping up, was prone to interrupting everyone’s departure with a question that could easily have been asked on Slack.
Yeah I agree with this as well
Going forward I think I'll prefer to be more technical for the self advancement.
Suggest reading a negotiation book like Never Split the Difference or 3D Negotiation.
These books spend hundreds of pages describing techniques to jog your ability to put yourself in the other person's shoes.
Endlessly bring up the major point, talking about how human beings see the world through rose tinted spectacles. Negotiation is about gathering information to make an offer the other person will accept.
Thinking about the point of view of the other person is difficult, mentally intensive work.
Most folk I need can do it. Many have just... fallen out of the habit.
> Thinking about the point of view of the other person is difficult, mentally intensive work.
That’s true
This point is something that I notice in a lot of meetings. Some of the engineers I work with are long winded and tend to over-explain concepts/issues to non-engineering folks. I try to send a direct message during the meeting (now and then) to try and reel them in a little by explaining that the non-engineering folks don’t need those details and that a what they are really asking for is a summary of the key points of the concept/issue under discussion, but it’s not always well received.