Our design collective used to finish each other's sentences and now we sit in meetings where nobody says what they actually think about the work. We've gotten careful with each other and I don't know if it's because we're more professional or because we've stopped trusting something.
More people experience this than they realize.
Safety and politeness have replaced the vulnerable honesty that creative collaboration requires.
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