Many in such a work environment will fund that FP has unacceptably low signal-noise ratio and will inevitably avoid FP...
I think FP has a better signal-cost ratio than workshops I’ve been to, in part because people tend to be more willing to talk about half-baked ideas in private, and in part because if I see some content online that I’m not interested in, I can quickly skip over it, while directly signaling disinterest to someone IRL is liable to hurt their feelings and accrue social cost to myself.
(I still try to attend workshops once a while, in part to physically meet people, in part to talk to people who rarely participate online, in part to get people’s private opinions that they don’t share online.)
I do think there are other powerful disincentives for FP though, and agree that it’s kind of an uphill battle to get more people online.
I think FP has a better signal-cost ratio than workshops I’ve been to, in part because people tend to be more willing to talk about half-baked ideas in private, and in part because if I see some content online that I’m not interested in, I can quickly skip over it, while directly signaling disinterest to someone IRL is liable to hurt their feelings and accrue social cost to myself.
(I still try to attend workshops once a while, in part to physically meet people, in part to talk to people who rarely participate online, in part to get people’s private opinions that they don’t share online.)
I do think there are other powerful disincentives for FP though, and agree that it’s kind of an uphill battle to get more people online.