Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

The Feedback They Almost Didn't Give You

Why the good news rarely comes first, and almost never comes unprompted

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Eric Near
Aug 06, 2026
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There is a habit I picked up somewhere in the middle of my career, small enough that I almost don’t think of it as a habit. At the end of any feedback conversation, once my supervisor has said what they came to say, I ask if there’s anything else. The answer is almost never no.

Most feedback conversations are built around correction, because correction i…

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