alt Hacker News> But I'm glad he stayed honest to himself instead and didn't have a PR team ghostwrite his thoughts.
If there's one thing I learned in this debacle is "I should spend 1-2 days and send to a close friend before hitting publish on a firey reply." The way Andrew rephrased the closing section is the kind of thing I should publish on the first edit in similar scenarios.
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Unlikely a useful lesson here. If it would have been written as "political correct" version up to the point of not calling Jarred out at all would have missed the core message. The fact that it was written blunt is the reason it went viral.
I also don’t really like his closing section, it has a big “sorry but not sorry” feeling to it.
I think if the last decade has taught us anything, its that decorum has zero to negative value in public communication. People pay attention to drama, and you need attention to be heard. When the penalty for rudeness is gone, just go for contention.
Early on in my career I wrote a highly critical email - I asked a coworker for his opinion before I sent.
He said “there’s just one thing that would improve this” and hit the delete button.
That intervention saved me, and everyone I was working with, from a lot of unnecessary stress.
Venting is great - get it out of your system. Then take a deep breath, go for a walk, and then decide what to do.