Post #4071038
2026-07-21 15:06 UTC
When I started writing a book I made my wife a promise: I am NOT going to read the reviews 😂
This was a HARD WON PROMISE. I'm a community-based researcher and I live and breathe feedback and dialogue so this was an enormous choice for me but listen, I also believe in reader safe spaces and information ecosystems and, uh, I study mismeasurement so I understand the power of staring at tiny little star ratings and I'm just not gonna do that on the review platforms specifically. Self-care.
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@grimalkina@mastodon.social 2026-07-21 15:07
The Psychology of Software Teams made it to hackernews today (!!!) which invoked the oldest law, the original magic: Do Not Read the Comments. I am not! I have made a rare and holy peace with this. But it also has got me thinking about *signal*