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  "author": {
    "name": "Dylan Fitzgerald",
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  "content_html": "\u003ch1\u003eExplicit ask vs. implicit/inference culture\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you want something from your team or family, do you ask for it explicitly, or do you “make it clear that’s what you want”? (And is it actually clear, or is it a shared dance?)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDitto in the other direction. How do you feel when someone makes a direct ask, either of you or in front of you? What about when someone makes strongly implicit they want something of you, but won’t make the ask? What feels comfortable, polite, or downright rude?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis isn’t just a rhetorical question—different people from different backgrounds, even within the same culture, will have dramatically differing answers, and the style opposite our own feels unnatural.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that both of these are learnable, but only one scales.\u003c/p\u003e\n",
  "content_md": "# Explicit ask vs. implicit/inference culture\n\nIf you want something from your team or family, do you ask for it explicitly, or do you “make it clear that’s what you want”? (And is it actually clear, or is it a shared dance?)\n\nDitto in the other direction. How do you feel when someone makes a direct ask, either of you or in front of you? What about when someone makes strongly implicit they want something of you, but won’t make the ask? What feels comfortable, polite, or downright rude?\n\nThis isn’t just a rhetorical question—different people from different backgrounds, even within the same culture, will have dramatically differing answers, and the style opposite our own feels unnatural.\n\nNote that both of these are learnable, but only one scales.",
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  "page": "https://dylanfitzgerald.net/blog/explicit-ask-vs-implicit-inference/",
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  "updated": "2022-09-07T02:18:00Z",
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