Thanks for this, and for your work on Felicifia. As someone who’s found it crucial to have others around me setting an example for me, I particularly admire the people who basically just figured out for themselves what they should be doing and then starting doing it.
Fwiw re THINK: I might be wrong in this recollection, but at the time it felt like very clearly Mark Lee’s organisation (though Jacy did help him out). It also was basically only around for a year. The model was ‘try to go really broad by contacting tonnes of schools in one go and getting hype going’. It was a cool idea which had precedent, but my impression was the experiment basically didn’t pan out.
Regarding THINK, I personally also got the impression that Mark was a sole-founder, albeit one who managed other staff. I had just taken Jacy’s claim of co-founding THINK at face value. If his claim was inaccurate, then clearly Jacy’s piece was more misleading than I had realised.
I agree with the impression that Mark Lee seemed the sole founder. I was helping Mark Lee with some minor contributions at THINK in 2013, and Jacy didn’t occur to me as one of the main contributors at the time. (Perhaps he was more involved with a specific THINK group, but not the overall organization?)
Thanks for this, and for your work on Felicifia. As someone who’s found it crucial to have others around me setting an example for me, I particularly admire the people who basically just figured out for themselves what they should be doing and then starting doing it.
Fwiw re THINK: I might be wrong in this recollection, but at the time it felt like very clearly Mark Lee’s organisation (though Jacy did help him out). It also was basically only around for a year. The model was ‘try to go really broad by contacting tonnes of schools in one go and getting hype going’. It was a cool idea which had precedent, but my impression was the experiment basically didn’t pan out.
That’s very nice of you to say, thanks Michelle!
Regarding THINK, I personally also got the impression that Mark was a sole-founder, albeit one who managed other staff. I had just taken Jacy’s claim of co-founding THINK at face value. If his claim was inaccurate, then clearly Jacy’s piece was more misleading than I had realised.
I agree with the impression that Mark Lee seemed the sole founder. I was helping Mark Lee with some minor contributions at THINK in 2013, and Jacy didn’t occur to me as one of the main contributors at the time. (Perhaps he was more involved with a specific THINK group, but not the overall organization?)