Yeah, I’m not trying to stake out a claim on what the biggest risks are.
I’m saying assume that some community X has team A that is primarily responsible for risk management. In one year, some risks materialise as giant catastrophes—risk management has gone terribly. The worst. But the community is otherwise decently good at picking out impactful meta projects. Then team A says “we’re actually not just in the business of risk management (the thing that is going poorly), we also see ourselves as generically trying to pick out high impact meta projects. So much so that we’re renaming ourselves as ‘Risk Management and cool meta projects’”. And to repeat, we (impartial onlookers) think that many other teams have been capable of running impactful meta projects. We might start to wonder whether team A is losing their focus, and losing track of the most pertinent facts about the strategic situation.
Yeah, I’m not trying to stake out a claim on what the biggest risks are.
I’m saying assume that some community X has team A that is primarily responsible for risk management. In one year, some risks materialise as giant catastrophes—risk management has gone terribly. The worst. But the community is otherwise decently good at picking out impactful meta projects. Then team A says “we’re actually not just in the business of risk management (the thing that is going poorly), we also see ourselves as generically trying to pick out high impact meta projects. So much so that we’re renaming ourselves as ‘Risk Management and cool meta projects’”. And to repeat, we (impartial onlookers) think that many other teams have been capable of running impactful meta projects. We might start to wonder whether team A is losing their focus, and losing track of the most pertinent facts about the strategic situation.