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Our readingWhat is a korrent?

Giving a vendor brutally honest feedback helps the vendor and the customer's own company more than polite praise given out of fear

Drawn from what Brendan Gregg said

What these subjects mean

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What does courage take?under our view: It is a generous risk: standing for something, saying the true thing, leaving the consensus

What Brendan Gregg actually said

  1. Brendan Gregg Computer performance engineer working on datacenter performance at OpenAI
    It isn't easy dealing with peer pressure and a room of warm and friendly staff begging you say something, anything nice about their terrible product for fear of losing their jobs -- and realizing you must be brutal to their faces otherwise you're not helping the vendor or your own company.

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