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Re:Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence by haltIncomplete on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:34AM (#39861256)
> The HN community is a bubble of radical truth seeking. This is objectively useful in most professional contexts. Part of the "culture fit" test at a high performing company will be a check for blunt honesty and truth seeking. No "yes men".

The number of people seeking truth who are silenced and banned within these examples for various forms of non-compliance says otherwise.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I improve my emotional intelligence by haltIncomplete on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:46AM (#39861317)
Yep, see, exactly; given direct experience of the opposite in both contexts, I reject the premise without saying “yes” and am downvoted.

It’s a laughable generalization that doesn’t hold up in reality. So easy to write words, but so hard to back them up convincingly.

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