but the team has not cohered around a leadership structure or agenda yet. I’m hopeful that this will come together
I don’t expect the most effective strategy at present to be [(try hard to) cohere around an agenda]. An umbrella org hosting individual researchers seems the right starting point. Beyond that, I’d expect [structures and support to facilitate collaboration and self-organization]to be ideal. If things naturally coalesce that’s probably a good sign—but I’d prefer that to be a downstream consequence of exploration, not something to aim for in itself.
To be clear, this is all on the research side—on the operations side organization is clearly good.
Yeah, I mostly agree with the claim that individuals pursuing their own agendas is likely better than trying to push for people to work more closely. Finding directions which people feel like converging on could be great, but not at the cost of being able to pursue what seems most promising in a self-directed way.
I think I meant I was hopeful about the whole thing coming together, rather than specifically the coherent agenda part.
Broadly I agree.
I’m not sure about:
I don’t expect the most effective strategy at present to be [(try hard to) cohere around an agenda]. An umbrella org hosting individual researchers seems the right starting point. Beyond that, I’d expect [structures and support to facilitate collaboration and self-organization] to be ideal.
If things naturally coalesce that’s probably a good sign—but I’d prefer that to be a downstream consequence of exploration, not something to aim for in itself.
To be clear, this is all on the research side—on the operations side organization is clearly good.
Yeah, I mostly agree with the claim that individuals pursuing their own agendas is likely better than trying to push for people to work more closely. Finding directions which people feel like converging on could be great, but not at the cost of being able to pursue what seems most promising in a self-directed way.
I think I meant I was hopeful about the whole thing coming together, rather than specifically the coherent agenda part.