I’ve already written a few comments on this post, but it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to/ought to say as my main response.
I heard rumors of some of this a while back. I’m disappointed to see that the claim about asking an intern to take on legal risk was in fact true. I’m also disappointed to see that there are more worrying allegations beyond those that I’d previously heard.
Despite my object-level position, on the meta-level I think it would likely have been better for Ben to have waited a week and I also don’t find Elliot J Davies’ use of the term brigading to be helpful as I have explained in previous comments.
Whilst we have this really bad situation in front of us, it’s worth noting that the norms we create apply not only to this situation but to future ones as well. And even though I doubt I’ll be persuaded by Nonlinear leadership’s defense, I want them to have the opportunity to try[1].
I’m still really saddened by what seems to have happened here and I hope Alice and Chloe heal/have healed. It seems like Nonlinear leadership was comfortable taking absurd risks with what they asked them to do. It really shouldn’t be at all surprising that it blew up in their face, but, it easily could have ended much worse and I’m really thankful for Alice and Chloe’s sake that this didn’t happen.
Disclaimer: I was previously an intern at Nonlinear.
I’ve already written a few comments on this post, but it took me a while to figure out what I wanted to/ought to say as my main response.
I heard rumors of some of this a while back. I’m disappointed to see that the claim about asking an intern to take on legal risk was in fact true. I’m also disappointed to see that there are more worrying allegations beyond those that I’d previously heard.
Despite my object-level position, on the meta-level I think it would likely have been better for Ben to have waited a week and I also don’t find Elliot J Davies’ use of the term brigading to be helpful as I have explained in previous comments.
Whilst we have this really bad situation in front of us, it’s worth noting that the norms we create apply not only to this situation but to future ones as well. And even though I doubt I’ll be persuaded by Nonlinear leadership’s defense, I want them to have the opportunity to try[1].
I’m still really saddened by what seems to have happened here and I hope Alice and Chloe heal/have healed. It seems like Nonlinear leadership was comfortable taking absurd risks with what they asked them to do. It really shouldn’t be at all surprising that it blew up in their face, but, it easily could have ended much worse and I’m really thankful for Alice and Chloe’s sake that this didn’t happen.
Disclaimer: I was previously an intern at Nonlinear.
My expectation is that their defense will convince me that things are less bad than indicated by this post, but still really bad.