[Noisebridge-discuss] Noisebridge Executive Director

[Sai Emrys]

Attempting to rephrase Christie, to demonstrate a bit of empathy
rather than just arguing:

The majority of people are satisficing* here. Mitch is good, therefore
they think it's not worth bothering to look elsewhere.

Christie is primarily wanting either of two things AFAICT:
a) to optimize the choice of ED by comparing more candidates and
picking the best overall
b) to prevent groupthink behavior, a priori

People are responding by trying to counter her objections to Mitch,
and ignoring those desiderata. What she wants is to have a real
discussion about other options.

I think neither of these goals is harmful to NB to do, and they should
be at least mildly beneficial, so why not humor her? Enough about
Mitch, everyone knows who he is etc. That ain't going anywhere for a
week.

Please talk about other people, like Mikolaj, who's accepted zir
nomination and might well make a great ED too. Mikloaj is local
(IIRC), shows up a lot, and appears not to be a serial killer or
anything like that. ;-)

Bashing heads is IME less productive than actually displaying some
empathy and negotiating...**

- Sai

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing - cogsci stuff. tl;dr:
going for "good enough" rather than "best"
** Am I the only one who has to keep fighting a reflex to point at how
this is yet another case of framing conflicts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_%28social_sciences%29