Funny, it didn't sound like that to me. It seems like a pretty accurate self-assessment, but again tone deaf -- it's almost like RMS and neurotypicals are speaking a different language -- or at least communicating in radically different modes.
Most normal people expect you to address their feelings first and foremost. This isn't just people on one side of the political spectrum or the other, it's across the board. The average person isn't very good at handling details or wading through context, which of course RMS puts first. If you communicate this way, you lose your audience, even though it's logical to start from facts and context and proceed to the conclusion, it's more *effective* to start at the conclusion and work your way back:
it was tone-deaf that I didn't acknowledge as context the injustice that Epstein did to women or the pain that caused.
Even that sentence needs to be restructured, he needed to start with the end, something like this:
I failed to acknowledge the injustice that Epstein did to women or the pain that caused and for that failure I am sorry.
Trying to put things in a logical order, to declare your variables before you use them, that sounds evasive to normal people.
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Funny, it didn't sound like that to me. It seems like a pretty accurate self-assessment, but again tone deaf -- it's almost like RMS and neurotypicals are speaking a different language -- or at least communicating in radically different modes.
Most normal people expect you to address their feelings first and foremost. This isn't just people on one side of the political spectrum or the other, it's across the board. The average person isn't very good at handling details or wading through context, which of course RMS puts first. If you communicate this way, you lose your audience, even though it's logical to start from facts and context and proceed to the conclusion, it's more *effective* to start at the conclusion and work your way back:
it was tone-deaf that I didn't acknowledge as context the injustice that Epstein did to women or the pain that caused.
Even that sentence needs to be restructured, he needed to start with the end, something like this:
I failed to acknowledge the injustice that Epstein did to women or the pain that caused and for that failure I am sorry.
Trying to put things in a logical order, to declare your variables before you use them, that sounds evasive to normal people.