Responding to Scott Alexander’s excellent post, Criticism of Criticism of Criticism. Giving effective criticism is hard. There’s always the danger that people will get offended or reject the criticism, of course. But there’s also the subtler failure mode, in which people will accept the criticism and then not do anything about it.
Effective criticism
Effective criticism
Effective criticism
Responding to Scott Alexander’s excellent post, Criticism of Criticism of Criticism. Giving effective criticism is hard. There’s always the danger that people will get offended or reject the criticism, of course. But there’s also the subtler failure mode, in which people will accept the criticism and then not do anything about it.