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The Golden Rule at Work
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The golden rule at work = treat colleagues the way you want to be treated - in email tone, credit, deadlines, and hallway gossip.
It's active, not passive: do the helpful thing, don't only avoid harm. The check is experiential - how would I want feedback delivered, how would I want to be included, how would I want a mistake handled? I don't wait for them to go first. Gospel depth lives in The Golden Rule; this is the version I use before I hit send.
Example
My draft reply to a junior dev was technically right and needlessly harsh. I paused, asked how I'd want that correction in a code review on my worst week, and rewrote it before the thread got worse.
Note Relationships
| Relationship | Wikilink | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| alternative | Love Your Enemies | Fair treatment for allies vs harder love when someone actively opposes you |
| contradicts | Pareto Principle | when I optimize for my 20% and treat the other 80% as disposable |
| extends | The Golden Rule | Same ethic with meeting-room language instead of sermon vocabulary |
