Speaking very much only for myself personally here
At first I was upset that CEA / EV / etc. didn’t have a good statement yet. Then I tried thinking of my own statement. And it took awhile to feel like I knew all the relevant facts. Then awhile to draft something good. And then everyone needed to review it—board members, leadership, staff, lawyers, etc. And then when anyone wanted something changed or we learned a key fact was wrong, etc., everything needed to get re-reviewed. It takes a long time to write something that’s meaningful and also feels like everyone is represented. And this must be even harder given Effective Ventures (EV) is made up of many different groups. So I have a lot of empathy here.
To be clear, I don’t actually have anything awesome to say about the situation as I was not a part of it and I don’t have any information that isn’t public. But I do have enough experience to have sympathy with slow public statements.
I… Do think I don’t want public statements. I would like public conversations, and indeed a process of slow internal drafting and honing feels more likely to harm in this case, than to help.
I think the big statements and official takes should take many weeks. The situation is confusing, and I don’t think we know what lessons to take away from this, and I desperately don’t want us to rush out what lessons we are supposed to learn from this.
But what I want in the meantime is presence. Sharing info so that people are better placed to form their own takes. Thinking together with people and pointing out flaws in each other’s arguments. I prefer comments over top-level posts and list of observations over calls for action and lessons learned. Speaking as individuals instead of speaking as organizations.
Speaking very much only for myself personally here
At first I was upset that CEA / EV / etc. didn’t have a good statement yet. Then I tried thinking of my own statement. And it took awhile to feel like I knew all the relevant facts. Then awhile to draft something good. And then everyone needed to review it—board members, leadership, staff, lawyers, etc. And then when anyone wanted something changed or we learned a key fact was wrong, etc., everything needed to get re-reviewed. It takes a long time to write something that’s meaningful and also feels like everyone is represented. And this must be even harder given Effective Ventures (EV) is made up of many different groups. So I have a lot of empathy here.
To be clear, I don’t actually have anything awesome to say about the situation as I was not a part of it and I don’t have any information that isn’t public. But I do have enough experience to have sympathy with slow public statements.
I… Do think I don’t want public statements. I would like public conversations, and indeed a process of slow internal drafting and honing feels more likely to harm in this case, than to help.
I think the big statements and official takes should take many weeks. The situation is confusing, and I don’t think we know what lessons to take away from this, and I desperately don’t want us to rush out what lessons we are supposed to learn from this.
But what I want in the meantime is presence. Sharing info so that people are better placed to form their own takes. Thinking together with people and pointing out flaws in each other’s arguments. I prefer comments over top-level posts and list of observations over calls for action and lessons learned. Speaking as individuals instead of speaking as organizations.