But… this comment is false as far as I can tell? Like, I didn’t express myself ideally in my comment below (which I think deserves the downvotes and the lower visibility), and it’s an understandable misunderstanding to think that Michael still has somehow some kind of speculation grant budget, but at least to me it really looks like he is no longer involved.
Just to excerpt the relevant sections from the thread below:
There is a largish number of people who are involved as speculation grantors who have a pretty small unilateral budget to make grants with, and I had in my mind totally not cached them as “being involved in SFF” (and do also think that’s a kind of inaccurate summary, though one that I think is reasonable to have from the outside).
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I also have access to an internal spreadsheet of speculation grantors and Michael is not listed on that, which does make me more sympathetic to my misunderstanding since I have looked at this spreadsheet a bunch more recently, and so was quite confident that he wasn’t listed on that one. My current best model is that he is no longer a speculation grantor (maybe because his budget went to zero), though I find him being listed on the website but not on the internal spreadsheet confusing enough that I might be missing something.
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Cool, yeah, looks like he was removed around the same time from the spreadsheet and from the public list, so I am now quite confident that he is no longer involved as a speculation grantor.
But… this comment is false as far as I can tell? Like, I didn’t express myself ideally in my comment below (which I think deserves the downvotes and the lower visibility), and it’s an understandable misunderstanding to think that Michael still has somehow some kind of speculation grant budget, but at least to me it really looks like he is no longer involved.
Just to excerpt the relevant sections from the thread below: