The classiest people don’t deal with rudeness by firing back or rising above it, they do…
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Lachlan Brown is a Co-Publisher of Silicon Canals and helps set editorial direction across Technology and Power, Work and Digital Life, and Relationships and Society. His background includes a Diploma of Psychological Studies and a decade of building and operating online businesses.
Someone said something rude to me last week.
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