Welcome to the Radical Canter podcast, a show about how to kick ass at work without losing your humanity.

I'm your host, Amy Sandler, and today we're going to do something a little

different. Kim's on the road with her family. And in her absence, our CEO, Jason Rosoff and I are

going to answer some of the advice questions folks have been sending us. Say hi, Jason.

Good morning, everyone, or afternoon or evening, wherever you are.

Good morning.

It's morning for us right now here in almost July.

That's probably why Good Day works so well.

You can say good day any time of the day. Yes, that's one of my favorite theatrical productions, waiting for Good Day.

Man, that's inside baseball.

Yeah, sorry, yes.

Okay, so what we're going to do today, which rhymes with Good Day, what we're going to do is share some of these advice questions

and see where we might land on advice,

not just for this person, but also for all of us

that are really working through the practice of radical candor.

So this one's about someone trying to give upwards feedback

in a higher education environment. And I will say

that I have actually spent several years in a previous life working in higher ed. So I found

this one really interesting. The questioner writes, I absorbed all of the lessons of radical

candor and began applying them to my workplace. I was a junior

faculty member at a small private university and made the mistake of trying to apply praise and

criticism upward on my boss. Yes, this was a huge mistake. My boss realized quite quickly one of their

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