Elo comments on Why startup founders have mood swings (and why they may have uses) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Elo 01 December 2015 06:41:03AM 1 point [-]

Certainly one of them is more “pleasant” to have around. ... Both halves of the process are critical

future post request - strategies for:

making the other more pleasant
dealing better with the other being unpleasant
doing things with the unpleasantness that make them more productive (or making good use of the sway)

Comment author: RomeoStevens 01 December 2015 07:07:21AM 6 points [-]

I've found that simply asking the question asked near the beginning, "what is this for?" to be fairly helpful with negative emotions in general.

Comment author: Duncan_Sabien 02 December 2015 12:21:53AM 3 points [-]

Yeah, that's a new heuristic I've adopted recently, that I think other more effective humans around me were already running.