It’s easy to complain, it’s hard to create, it’s easy to complain about those that create
If there is one rule in community life, it is this: there will always be people that complain.
And it’s so hard to be on the receiving end.
You can do 1000 things well with zero thanks and then get hounded for that one thing that was just not good enough.
The other week I was reading a thing and trying to decide whether or how to respond. I checked in with my mood and decided that “I don’t have energy for this” and I walked away.
Our energy is limited we are usually better off spending it on supporting our community flywheels of culture rather than trying to respond to those that are bringing us down.
Easier said than done, of course.