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Yep. If my manager asks a question like that, there are three appropriate responses:

(1) Unfortunately that would be challenging for us because X.

(2) We've been talking about that for ages, because X, Y, and Z. I'd love it if we could make time for a rewrite next quarter.

(3) Hmm, interesting. Can you share the blog post? (Buys me time to think and follow up later).

What neither of us have time for is for me to walk him through my thought process via the Socratic method.



> What neither of us have time for is for me to walk him through my thought process via the Socratic method.

Hilarious.




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