The ways in which formal, chartered WGs perpetuate a form of survivorship bias is also worth exploring. Should note up front that nothing I'm about to point out implies any bad faith. This happens organically...https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1139366801647665152 …
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And yet we do. Insiders are always keen for work to happen in the rooms they're already in (where they have implicit veto and social capital from previous battles won/lost). For early stage exploration, this is a trap!
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The insiders don't feel the glacial rate of progress as a problem...they're too busy as it is! And folks presenting upstart ideas didn't convince all the old-timers that their thing was really *needed*...we've gotten by without it, after all! And we work by consensus here, soo...
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These forums are toxic for exploration and iteration of big new things because *that's not what they're chartered to do*. Never were, never will be (see previous thread).
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In conclusion, WGs that tend to the care and feeding of important systems didn't spring fully formed from the head of Zeus either! It's unreasonable to expect such miracles to happen at *any* moment, past or future, so we use CGs and incubation to make safer spaces for new ideas.
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