Hear hear, one of my favorite comments recently.

Can’t agree more about the technical points (category error etc), and then the unexpected switch to the value of receiving constructive criticism as a gift not an attack.

Myself, I’m definitely conditioned to receive it as an attack. I’m trying to break this habit. This morning I gave some extensive feedback to some friends who have a startup. The whole time I was writing it, I was stressing out that they’d feel attacked, because that’s how I might take similar criticism.

How was it actually received? A mix I think. Some people explicitly received it as a gift, and others I’m not so sure.