David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
I made the offer for an in-person conversation because I think I can provide our office conversations with a healthy dose of "Helvetica Neue"h skepticism, and I suspect Brad will be relieved that it won't be all on him to defend his viewpoint. I also suspect you and I may be reasonably well-aligned on this issue, too.
Yeah, sorry for snapping. I realise that a lot more gets done at high bandwidth, I worry that this can achieve "local consensus" that just happens to treat principles that may be important to others as disposable. I did get a whiff of the interaction as it happens visiting in December, even if I was mostly in the 6th-floor land of infuriating intangibles rather than the 3rd-floor land of things that work or don't. I apologise for my frustration.
+1. In a physical meeting, there is higher bandwith, but a lot of the payload can be pity, intimidation, "nobody leaves before we have an agreement", etc.
Tim