The Signal and the Volume

Every comment has 2 sizes. Measure the signal, then set the rest down.

There is the signal: how important the feedback actually was. And there is the volume: how much space it took up in you. Sometimes those match. Sometimes a passing remark on

Tuesday is still playing on a loop at 2 in the morning on Friday.

The comment was the size it was. The rest is volume, and volume can be measured.

Write the comment down in one plain sentence, exactly what was said and nothing more.

Then ask what, if anything, it asks you to do.

If the answer is nothing, you are allowed to set it down.

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