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Kelsey Piper is taking a lot of heat after apolgoizing for treating COVID with more urgency in her personal life than as a writer for Vox... but her writing was ahead of the media curve, with headlines like "Don’t scold people for worrying about the coronavirus" as early as Feb 6https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1243303788808564737 …
I get the sense that Kelsey is struggling with the responsibility of acting as a representative of an institution vs. the regular human responsibility of representing oneself, and I dunno, I think that is actually a pretty noble struggle to have even if it sometimes causes errors
One advantage I have living life in the utterly bizarre way I've been living it is that I'm not borrowing trust or credibility from anyone when I talk. It's not something I ever have to worry about. It makes me feel a lot more comfortable being fully transparent about my opinion.
Anyway, I thought Kelsey's writing on the virus was some of the better stuff out there even in the early days. I don't think anyone can fairly accuse her of fostering a sense of complacency despite Vox's broader misbehavior there. Please don't make her be the scapegoat for this!
Ahead of the curve in warning us, and ahead of the curve in her mea culpa... and getting flack others deserve more, but aren't getting because they don't have the honesty to apologise. Dreadful incentives. Makes me think of this: https://www.jefftk.com/p/responsible-transparency-consumption …
Kelsey Piper is good people.
There's this weird thing where, because a subset of writers at Vox have treated "Tech" as a monolith and painted it with a broad brush over the past few years, it's somehow considered ok to do the same to Vox in return.
“No Handshakes” was Feb 13th
Kelsey is great and deeply epistemically humble, as anyone who has listened to her on a podcast or read her work regularly can attest
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