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The Voice of Arrogance
Wednesday, February 26, 2003

During our Stand Up Meeting this morning I lost my patience with our project's architect. We were discussing how to handle when two pairs need to work on the same file at the same time and the implications this has on source control. This afternoon I was talking about the incident with my boss and he gave me some valuable feedback, actually the same feedback my wife has given me countless times: sometimes when I get fired up about something, I can sound very condescending and arrogant. Apparently this is how I sounded this morning.

I know I need to work on this problem. I don't think I'm arrogant (although who really does), but I definitely come across that way at times. I need to somehow remind myself to watch out for the Voice of Arrogance in situations where I am especially vulnerable to it.

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