People often act like this, and they tend to assume they’re doing the other person a favor by being so open and flexible. After all, this way the other person will have to make no trade-offs and can spend their time exactly as they please. The problem with this however is that it’s computationally unkind: it offloads all the effort
Computational kindness by this definition is equivalent to Emotional Labor, no?
CK, as used here, seems more transactional and situation specific. Emotional Labor is usually referring to a pattern over time, including things like checking for unknown unknowns, and “making sure X gets done”
Both ideas are playing in similar space.
Computational kindness by this definition is equivalent to Emotional Labor, no?
CK, as used here, seems more transactional and situation specific. Emotional Labor is usually referring to a pattern over time, including things like checking for unknown unknowns, and “making sure X gets done” Both ideas are playing in similar space.