This is a rich conversation around validation vs. reassurance, which I recently revisited. Go listen. (Seth Godin and Brian Koppelman, 7/7/2015, from The Moment podcast—from over 10 years ago, back catalog for the win!) I recently re-listened. Then I took the audio file, had a...
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://constantine.name/2026/01/02/extraction/