Allow me to join the chorus thanking you for writing this up and avoiding grade inflation. There’s a lot of great detail here and I look forward to digesting it more over time. Also kudos for trying the thing. Many of these lessons seem clearly valuable and correct once stated.
As with many (most?) things, the failures weren’t the grand disasters some foresaw, and the biggest cost was time spent without accomplishing more—but everyone’s still better off for having tried versus not. Doing things is hard, new and odd things are harder, there are tons of pieces to do and some important things won’t look important slash whatever the ball is that gets dropped will end up looking obvious in hindsight.
My biggest takeaway from first reading is that it’s vital to have good methods of exclusion and a willingness to walk away, either from the whole thing or from a particular relationship/member, if you want to do something most people wouldn’t do. If something requires going above and beyond, do that, say goodbye to whoever isn’t on board slash able to handle it, and if you then have not enough people, then you fail. Which is fine! But to accommodate (e.g. the Knights and Ghost) is to give yourself no chance.
Allow me to join the chorus thanking you for writing this up and avoiding grade inflation. There’s a lot of great detail here and I look forward to digesting it more over time. Also kudos for trying the thing. Many of these lessons seem clearly valuable and correct once stated.
As with many (most?) things, the failures weren’t the grand disasters some foresaw, and the biggest cost was time spent without accomplishing more—but everyone’s still better off for having tried versus not. Doing things is hard, new and odd things are harder, there are tons of pieces to do and some important things won’t look important slash whatever the ball is that gets dropped will end up looking obvious in hindsight.
My biggest takeaway from first reading is that it’s vital to have good methods of exclusion and a willingness to walk away, either from the whole thing or from a particular relationship/member, if you want to do something most people wouldn’t do. If something requires going above and beyond, do that, say goodbye to whoever isn’t on board slash able to handle it, and if you then have not enough people, then you fail. Which is fine! But to accommodate (e.g. the Knights and Ghost) is to give yourself no chance.