While I realize I’ve kinda de-facto “taken a side” by this point (and probably limited who will talk to me as a result)? I was mispronouncing Geoff’s name, before this hit; this is pretty indicative of how little I knew him personally. I started out mostly caring about having the consequences-for-him be reached based off of some kind of reasonable assessment, and not caring too much about having it turn out one way or another. I still feel more invested in there being a good process, and in what will generate the best outcomes for the people who worked under him (or will ever work under him), than anything else.
Compared to Brent’s end-result of “homeless with health-problems in Hawaii” **? The things I’ve asked for have felt mild. But I also knew that if I wasn’t handling mentioning them, somebody else probably would. In my eyes, we probably needed someone outside of the Leverage ecosystem who knew a lot of the story (despite the substantial information-hiding efforts) to be handling this part of the response.
Pushing for people to publish the information-hiding agreement, and proposing that Geoff maybe shouldn’t have a position with a substantial amount of power over others (at least while we sort this out), felt to me like fairly weaksauce requests. I am still a bit surprised that Geoff may have taken this as a convincing audition for a “prosecutor” role? I am angry and clued-in enough to sincerely fill the role, if somebody has to and if nobody else will touch it. But it still surprised me, because it is not what I see as my primary responsibility here.
**Despite all his flaws and vices? I was close to Brent. I do care about Brent, and I wouldn’t have wished that for him.
While I realize I’ve kinda de-facto “taken a side” by this point (and probably limited who will talk to me as a result)? I was mispronouncing Geoff’s name, before this hit; this is pretty indicative of how little I knew him personally. I started out mostly caring about having the consequences-for-him be reached based off of some kind of reasonable assessment, and not caring too much about having it turn out one way or another. I still feel more invested in there being a good process, and in what will generate the best outcomes for the people who worked under him (or will ever work under him), than anything else.
Compared to Brent’s end-result of “homeless with health-problems in Hawaii” **? The things I’ve asked for have felt mild. But I also knew that if I wasn’t handling mentioning them, somebody else probably would. In my eyes, we probably needed someone outside of the Leverage ecosystem who knew a lot of the story (despite the substantial information-hiding efforts) to be handling this part of the response.
Pushing for people to publish the information-hiding agreement, and proposing that Geoff maybe shouldn’t have a position with a substantial amount of power over others (at least while we sort this out), felt to me like fairly weaksauce requests. I am still a bit surprised that Geoff may have taken this as a convincing audition for a “prosecutor” role? I am angry and clued-in enough to sincerely fill the role, if somebody has to and if nobody else will touch it. But it still surprised me, because it is not what I see as my primary responsibility here.
**Despite all his flaws and vices? I was close to Brent. I do care about Brent, and I wouldn’t have wished that for him.