Update: we sent out decisions to everyone who applied to the upcoming program, which is now Jan 6-8!
The fact that these decisions were so delayed and communication was poor and the program got postponed is all my fault and I would like to apologize. I understand that my being unresponsive created costs for you and makes planning harder. It also eats into a valuable resource of trust that makes people more suspicious of other events and generally makes coordination difficult.
This happened because I didn’t set firm enough deadlines or loop my collaborators in enough on the project, and then once I fell a little bit behind because we got more applications than I expected, I grew very averse to evaluating them. That’s not to say this was excusable—this is the kind of mistake that should cause people to trust me less. This is a fairly unprecedented error for me and I wrote down some reflections on why this happened, which I’ve shared with everyone who applied. I don’t think I’ll make another mistake of this flavor any time soon.
One thing I’d like to emphasize is this was entirely my mistake—Jonas and the rest of the people working on the Lurkshop and at Atlas and LessWrong tried to help but I didn’t communicate with them well or keep them in the loop.
Again, thank you everyone for your patience and I’m sorry for the hassle I’ve caused.
Update: we sent out decisions to everyone who applied to the upcoming program, which is now Jan 6-8!
The fact that these decisions were so delayed and communication was poor and the program got postponed is all my fault and I would like to apologize. I understand that my being unresponsive created costs for you and makes planning harder. It also eats into a valuable resource of trust that makes people more suspicious of other events and generally makes coordination difficult.
This happened because I didn’t set firm enough deadlines or loop my collaborators in enough on the project, and then once I fell a little bit behind because we got more applications than I expected, I grew very averse to evaluating them. That’s not to say this was excusable—this is the kind of mistake that should cause people to trust me less. This is a fairly unprecedented error for me and I wrote down some reflections on why this happened, which I’ve shared with everyone who applied. I don’t think I’ll make another mistake of this flavor any time soon.
One thing I’d like to emphasize is this was entirely my mistake—Jonas and the rest of the people working on the Lurkshop and at Atlas and LessWrong tried to help but I didn’t communicate with them well or keep them in the loop.
Again, thank you everyone for your patience and I’m sorry for the hassle I’ve caused.
I’m excited to see some of you in person soon!