<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Communication on Byte-sized chunks</title><link>https://bytesizedchunks.net/tags/communication/</link><description>Recent content in Communication on Byte-sized chunks</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:10:58 +0100</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://bytesizedchunks.net/tags/communication/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The cost of being "nice"</title><link>https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260426/</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:10:58 +0100</pubDate><guid>https://bytesizedchunks.net/blog/20260426/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The other day, a link popped up on Hacker News reviving this old Reddit post&lt;sup id="fnref:1"&gt;&lt;a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; in which &lt;code&gt;u/flipstables&lt;/code&gt; shares a pretty long and honest list of things they learned as a senior engineer. I highly suggest going through it as most of the things there are pure gold. But one, seemingly mundane, item inspired me to write this chunk:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Be kind to everyone. Not because it&amp;rsquo;ll help your career (it will), but because being kind is rewarding by itself.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>