I need to learn a similar lesson. My team lead isn't used to being questioned, and when I tried to correct him in a meeting it resulted in a big argument. I realized that I did so partly because I wanted to demonstrate my own knowledge. We were both being egotistical. Certainly he could have handled it better, but I could have avoided the problem entirely by finding a more tactful framing rather than correcting him publicly.

I guess the generalized version is "it's easier to get what you want through compromise and avoiding conflict." Or just, "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

What a lovely article. There's a strong correlation between the energy you put out into the world and what you get back.

I often think that as I end up confirming a grumpy/aggressive person's expectation I'll be a bad customer, or confirming a kind/present persons's expectation I'll be a good one

I must be unenlightened because this job would make me quite misanthropic. Even sitting in a doctors waiting room gives me that feeling.

What a great site design. Easy to read, simple layout almost comforting.

That's quite the story. I have a family member that spent some time on a taxi and the stories are much the same. Assholes aplenty.

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Quite different than the scam pedicabs that operate in US cities now.