I agree, although I also think we ran with this where it was convenient instead of hashing it out properly (like, we asked “what can we say that’ll sound good and be true” when writing fundraiser posts, rather than “what are we up for committing to in a way that will build a high-integrity relationship with whichever community we actually want to serve, and will let any other communities who we don’t want to serve realize that and stop putting their hopes in us.”)
It seems to me that at least while I worked there (2017-2021), CFAR did try to hash this out properly many times, we just largely failed to converge. I think we had a bunch of employees/workshop staff over the years who were in fact aiming largely or even primarily to raise the sanity waterline, just in various/often-idiosyncratic ways.
I agree, although I also think we ran with this where it was convenient instead of hashing it out properly (like, we asked “what can we say that’ll sound good and be true” when writing fundraiser posts, rather than “what are we up for committing to in a way that will build a high-integrity relationship with whichever community we actually want to serve, and will let any other communities who we don’t want to serve realize that and stop putting their hopes in us.”)
But I agree re: Julia.
It seems to me that at least while I worked there (2017-2021), CFAR did try to hash this out properly many times, we just largely failed to converge. I think we had a bunch of employees/workshop staff over the years who were in fact aiming largely or even primarily to raise the sanity waterline, just in various/often-idiosyncratic ways.