Thanks for this reply, I’m very glad to know you found it helpful and insightful.
I think the rule you set to yourself is great, and I agree the reverse doesn’t seem like a good idea. It’s more that it’s important to feel free to be open about negative things than making sure you’re saying negative things. I don’t know what the right balance of negative/positive gossip, but I guess it is tilted towards the positive (a bit like even vote on forums like LW and Reddit are skewed towards upvotes rather than downvotes). I think I could have made that clearer in the post.
Thanks for this reply, I’m very glad to know you found it helpful and insightful.
I think the rule you set to yourself is great, and I agree the reverse doesn’t seem like a good idea. It’s more that it’s important to feel free to be open about negative things than making sure you’re saying negative things. I don’t know what the right balance of negative/positive gossip, but I guess it is tilted towards the positive (a bit like even vote on forums like LW and Reddit are skewed towards upvotes rather than downvotes). I think I could have made that clearer in the post.