I fairly strongly believe the “frontloaded too much and ran out of steam” hypothesis, but also I’m not sure what we could have done instead.
I think a number of people were saying “we should bunker down for a month until we know more”, and the thing we maybe-could-have-done was set concrete dates for “followup and re-evaluate.” I think that’d have helped nonzero but not much.
I think it was exacerbated by, right around the time we might have done a second round of Do Lots Of Coordination, the official Shelter In Place order hit, and at the time I responded with “well, I guess that supercedes whatever house spreadsheet coordination I was doing”, and gave up on that.
Something I notice: I know one person who seemed to be following a strategy of “say semi-publicly that they are planning to bunker down for a month and then re-evaluate.” They were doing that in a way that wasn’t aiming to be authoritative, and I think relying on wisdom-of-crowds to update on that. (Or, just not making in their main responsibility to be authoritative)
I think I may also have been trying not to be too authoritative about the whole thing. I think even just being authoritative about “the plan is re-evaluate later” would have helped a bunch.
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I fairly strongly believe the “frontloaded too much and ran out of steam” hypothesis, but also I’m not sure what we could have done instead.
I think a number of people were saying “we should bunker down for a month until we know more”, and the thing we maybe-could-have-done was set concrete dates for “followup and re-evaluate.” I think that’d have helped nonzero but not much.
I think it was exacerbated by, right around the time we might have done a second round of Do Lots Of Coordination, the official Shelter In Place order hit, and at the time I responded with “well, I guess that supercedes whatever house spreadsheet coordination I was doing”, and gave up on that.
Something I notice: I know one person who seemed to be following a strategy of “say semi-publicly that they are planning to bunker down for a month and then re-evaluate.” They were doing that in a way that wasn’t aiming to be authoritative, and I think relying on wisdom-of-crowds to update on that. (Or, just not making in their main responsibility to be authoritative)
I think I may also have been trying not to be too authoritative about the whole thing. I think even just being authoritative about “the plan is re-evaluate later” would have helped a bunch.