I have two full sized single board computers, at least one of which I’m going to give away. If you don’t know what that is, but it peaks your interests go to my companies website and check out our “full sized” “single board computer” section. Look at our P3 ones to get an idea of what I got. THe exact board I have is not on there, but you can get an idea if you look at some of those.
Other than that, Lauren’s ordeal with her family has reminded me of a pet peeve of mine. I can’t stand people who answer everything with “Yeah, but…” followed by some excuse.
I much prefer, and often practice the blow of technique of “oh” or “mmmmm” in response to someone disagreeing with me or telling me I need to change something I don’t want to.
The problem with the “Yeah, but” response is two fold. First, your agreeing that the person is right about their analysis of the situation / event / debate / criticism that you are engaged in with them. This is a huge debate no-no. And even more to the point you are lying if you are going to follow this with a “but”, because you are then disagreeing. For example if I say “You smell like the gym shorts off a fat guy running laps at the YMCA.” And then someone follows with “Yeah, but I don’t smell that bad.” You just said you agree that you smell, but you then follow with, but not that bad. And a given the extreme of the gym short, you should have just said “I don’t smell that bad” or “No, I stink, but not that bad.” Or something to that effect. That conveys more respect for the person directly and says you listened to what they said.
Second is the excuse factor. The vast majority of people say “Yeah, but” followed by an excuse for their actions. This is especially true if you are calling for a change in their behavior like Lauren is. If you do something, and that needs to be changed, then there is no good excuse for your past actions. There is only corrective future action to be taken. So the appropriate response is “Yes you are right,” followed closely by “what can I do to improve this,” then the person goes and does it. Otherwise you should just disagree.
It is frustrating for me to talk to Lauren about this stuff, cuz that drives me so crazy when people do that.
Lunch over, back to work.