To be clear, I ’d say the same thing to Nick if asked, and mean what I said re: “in everyone’s interest”—I assume he wants FHI to succeed. I suspect/hope Nick would wants friends/colleagues “to disagree with [him] both publicly and privately; … who will admonish [him], gently but firmly, with whatever grain of truth there is in any accusations against me.” (from this article https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/opinion/cancel-culture-friendship.html - while I don’t like the term cancel culture and, like OP here, don’t think it’s an apt description of this situation, some of the points are relevant here).
Also, I felt very conflicted about posting this, both because I’ve benefited in the past from both Nick’s work and him hiring me, and because posting here stress me a lot (I expect lots of downvotes in absolute terms, though unsure how things will net out). This all stresses me out a lot. But I went ahead because I want FHI to be able to move on and thrive.
Edit: note I tweaked this comment a fair bit after reflecting on it some more, especially the last part, and I also wanted to signal-boost one of the comments in the thread from Jonas referenced above, here: https://twitter.com/JonasSandbrink/status/1631677091996393472?s=20 The point about mentorship is a big part of what I was gesturing at re: management effectiveness.
Meta-note re: my commenting non-anonymously:
To be clear, I ’d say the same thing to Nick if asked, and mean what I said re: “in everyone’s interest”—I assume he wants FHI to succeed. I suspect/hope Nick would wants friends/colleagues “to disagree with [him] both publicly and privately; … who will admonish [him], gently but firmly, with whatever grain of truth there is in any accusations against me.” (from this article https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/21/opinion/cancel-culture-friendship.html - while I don’t like the term cancel culture and, like OP here, don’t think it’s an apt description of this situation, some of the points are relevant here).
Also, I felt very conflicted about posting this, both because I’ve benefited in the past from both Nick’s work and him hiring me, and because posting here stress me a lot (I expect lots of downvotes in absolute terms, though unsure how things will net out). This all stresses me out a lot. But I went ahead because I want FHI to be able to move on and thrive.
Edit: note I tweaked this comment a fair bit after reflecting on it some more, especially the last part, and I also wanted to signal-boost one of the comments in the thread from Jonas referenced above, here: https://twitter.com/JonasSandbrink/status/1631677091996393472?s=20 The point about mentorship is a big part of what I was gesturing at re: management effectiveness.