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marcosdumay on June 15, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: What non-technical skills make a senior de...

I'd say the onus is on the person trying to train "empathy" to perceive the conversation is awkward and get to relate to you in a different manner.

But if it's you trying to train it, the onus is on you to make it not awkward. Because everybody do default to this conversation.

CiPHPerCoder on June 15, 2016 [–]

Quite right. In a one-on-one conversation, I know how to conduct myself to make it less awkward for the other person, but I still feel like I'm lying by omission when I answer questions like that.

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