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> But admitting to a mistake is good

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Yes - if that is what you care about. But from what I see not so many people in the world care about "good". They just "want more".

For example, when a customer reports a problem, and I admit that there is a bug and explain a workaround some of them will say: "you have buggy software, bla bla I will use Google". But if you say: "Strange. This might some very strange setup issue - here is the workaround" - no problem.

Of course, some of our customers love honesty but the vertical I'm working in, honesty is not a thing.

Depressing... I know.



That's because you can successfully deceive people as to whether you made a mistake.




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