I'd love to reply honestly to this. But I'm reminded of what one of my team told me recently about leadership communication:
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Replying to @RickByers @wycats and
1. In any discussion of complex, nuanced topics with 10,000s of people someone will be upset by any meamingful position taken and loose trust in the speaker
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2. These days trust is >10x harder to build than to loose
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Therefore the optimal strategy for building/preserving trust is to say nothing of any meaning when speaking to large groups. Sigh...
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Clearly we see this play out in global politics these days. What's the implication of this for the evolution of open platforms?
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I think this is an erroneous view that is causing Googlers to circle the wagons and become increasingly insular. I'd be happy to have an offline conversation about this but I really don't think the perspective of Google's culture is trending positive.
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Am I understanding your POV that Googlers becoming insular is *causing* these problems, and that insulation is a vicious cycle? Specifically, is that what you think happened to toast?
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IMO, what happened to toast was that folks assumed that Google wants to abuse its market power to ship stuff without going through standardization, and that implementation naturally comes only after standardization. They thought I2I meant "we're done with standardization."
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And that was clearly a bad-faith argument by many who knew better. Some were genuinely confused. Neither bothered to stop and ask if their assumption of malign intent was correct. SMDH.
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Yes, there was genuine confusion about process, which Google has taken positive steps to fix. But I'm not sure how helpful talk of "intent" is. Some of us feared that web features were being developed in a way that made it harder for the community to provide early feedback.
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Ok. What looking did that group do to try to see if that fear was justified? Did you ask us?
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I wondered about the process, and did some research. It turns out std-toast didn't follow Google's existing process. I expressed my concerns about that publicly, as did many others. We learned more about Google's process. Google learned about some a11y issues with the proposal.
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