Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

The Bug You Can't Debug with Code

Recognizing Emotional Blind Spots in Tech

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Eric Near
Aug 13, 2025
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I've been in the trenches long enough to know what a proper bug looks like. The kind that crashes the system, makes the network hiccup, or throws up a cryptic error message that sends you into a search engine rabbit hole. But over the years, I've come to realize that the most frustrating, project-derailing, team-fracturing "bugs" aren't in the code or t…

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