Yeah, I don’t necessarily mind an informal tone. But the reality is, I read [edit: a bit of] the appendix doc and I’m thinking, “I would really not want to be managed by this team and would be very stressed if my friends were being managed by them. For an organisation, this is really dysfunctional.” And not in an, “understandably risky experiment gone wrong” kind of way, which some people are thinking about this as, but in a, “systematically questionable judgement as a manager” way. Although there may be good spin-off convos around, “how risky orgs should be” and stuff. And maybe the point of this post isn’t to say, “nonlinear did a reasonably sufficient job managing employees and can expect to do so in the future” but rather, “I feel slandered and lied about and I want to share my perspective.”
Yeah, I don’t necessarily mind an informal tone. But the reality is, I read [edit: a bit of] the appendix doc and I’m thinking, “I would really not want to be managed by this team and would be very stressed if my friends were being managed by them. For an organisation, this is really dysfunctional.” And not in an, “understandably risky experiment gone wrong” kind of way, which some people are thinking about this as, but in a, “systematically questionable judgement as a manager” way. Although there may be good spin-off convos around, “how risky orgs should be” and stuff. And maybe the point of this post isn’t to say, “nonlinear did a reasonably sufficient job managing employees and can expect to do so in the future” but rather, “I feel slandered and lied about and I want to share my perspective.”
I’ll commit to not commenting more now unless I’ve gotten something really wrong or it’s really necessary or something :’)