Yeah, I actually agree, and that’s what I meant by ‘polluting the commons’ - if anyone who ever had an idea about meetups could go around demanding that people implement their thing, everything would quickly fall apart. (Random side note: this is one of the main failure modes of school reform in the US—there are so many new initiatives forced upon teachers that they never have time to get used to them, develop their own style, or even do their job). This is why I’m trying to be careful this time around. I also hope that my response to your top-level comment helped you understand where I’m coming from here.
It’s one thing to run a meetup experiment. It’s another to globally say that everyone should run their meetups in a certain way.
Global coordination needs much more buy-in from other people.
Yeah, I actually agree, and that’s what I meant by ‘polluting the commons’ - if anyone who ever had an idea about meetups could go around demanding that people implement their thing, everything would quickly fall apart. (Random side note: this is one of the main failure modes of school reform in the US—there are so many new initiatives forced upon teachers that they never have time to get used to them, develop their own style, or even do their job). This is why I’m trying to be careful this time around. I also hope that my response to your top-level comment helped you understand where I’m coming from here.