Luke raised, you say, some “important issues”. However, you didn’t engage with the substance of those issues. Instead, you complained that he hadn’t adequately separated them even though, for my money, they are substantially related. I wouldn’t have minded that if you’d then go on to offer your thoughts on how EA should operate on each of the dimensions you listed, but you did not.
Given this, your comment struck me as unacceptably dismissive, particularly given you are the CEO of CEA. The message it conveys is something like “I will only listen to your concerns if you present them exactly in the format I want” which, again for my money, is not a good message to send.
I’m sorry that it came off as dismissive. I’ll edit to make clearer that I appreciate and value the datapoints and perspectives. I am keen to get feedback and suggestions in any form. I take the datapoints and perspectives that Luke shared seriously, and I’ve discussed lots of these things with him before. Sounds like you might want to share your perspective too? I’ll send you a DM.
I viewed the splitting out of different threads as a substantive contribution to the debate, but I’m sorry you didn’t see it that way. :) I agree that it would have been better if I’d given my take on all of the dimensions, but I didn’t really want to get into all of those threads right now.
Would you have this same reaction if you saw Luke and Max or GWWC/CEA as equals and peers?
Maybe so! It seems like you saw this as the head of CEA talking down to the OP. Max and Luke seem to know each other though; I read Max’s comment as a quick flag between equals that there’s a disagreement here, but writing it on the forum instead of an email means the rest of us get to participate a bit more in the conversation too.
FWIW, I do think that I reacted to this a bit differently because it’s Luke (who I’ve worked with, and who I view as a peer). I think I would have been more positive/had lower standards for a random community member.
Hello Max,
In turn, I strongly downvoted your post.
Luke raised, you say, some “important issues”. However, you didn’t engage with the substance of those issues. Instead, you complained that he hadn’t adequately separated them even though, for my money, they are substantially related. I wouldn’t have minded that if you’d then go on to offer your thoughts on how EA should operate on each of the dimensions you listed, but you did not.
Given this, your comment struck me as unacceptably dismissive, particularly given you are the CEO of CEA. The message it conveys is something like “I will only listen to your concerns if you present them exactly in the format I want” which, again for my money, is not a good message to send.
I’m sorry that it came off as dismissive. I’ll edit to make clearer that I appreciate and value the datapoints and perspectives. I am keen to get feedback and suggestions in any form. I take the datapoints and perspectives that Luke shared seriously, and I’ve discussed lots of these things with him before. Sounds like you might want to share your perspective too? I’ll send you a DM.
I viewed the splitting out of different threads as a substantive contribution to the debate, but I’m sorry you didn’t see it that way. :) I agree that it would have been better if I’d given my take on all of the dimensions, but I didn’t really want to get into all of those threads right now.
Would you have this same reaction if you saw Luke and Max or GWWC/CEA as equals and peers? Maybe so! It seems like you saw this as the head of CEA talking down to the OP. Max and Luke seem to know each other though; I read Max’s comment as a quick flag between equals that there’s a disagreement here, but writing it on the forum instead of an email means the rest of us get to participate a bit more in the conversation too.
FWIW, I do think that I reacted to this a bit differently because it’s Luke (who I’ve worked with, and who I view as a peer). I think I would have been more positive/had lower standards for a random community member.
👌