Tobi Lütke: evaluation

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…How do we create safe outlets for venting in companies or institutions? What is it that one does? Because you don’t want it to turn into negative contagion, right? Yes. I actually think even just talking about venting being a thing that’s actually good, and prefixing when someone just wants to actually say a bunch of things, like field-test some takes, is a good idea. I think that can disable the power of it spiraling with everyone right after. I think that’s useful, but I don’t know. I didn’t go to it because it wasn’t in my neck of the woods, but I’ve seen parties or evenings organized now, where everyone gets a note with an outrageous position that they are supposed to represent for the rest of the evening. Then they’re supposed to tear it up and toss it away. Just to allow people to have plausible deniability of whatever they want to talk about because they just fall on, “Oh, I was told to represent this. ” I don’t know if it’s a good idea, but I love that someone is trying this because that seems like a social license to actually talk about stuff that otherwise can’t be talked about and seeing where it leads. Often, it leads to exactly the wrong place. Then you get that out of your system, and you don’t need to share it as a tweet afterwards. Are German meetings different?…

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