Comments on: Weekend Reading – March 15th 2008 http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/ Canadian Startup Community Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lee Dale http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1355 Lee Dale Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:14:06 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/#comment-1355 Hear hear. Though I'd like to see this move from the blogosphere to a sit down. Maybe an arm wrestle. Ideally, a good amount of face to face would sort out motivations and hopefully get people working together towards the common goal of improving the industry in Toronto and Canada and bring increased global recognition to our neck of the woods. Conflict is definitely good. Hear hear. Though I’d like to see this move from the blogosphere to a sit down. Maybe an arm wrestle.
Ideally, a good amount of face to face would sort out motivations and hopefully get people working together towards the common goal of improving the industry in Toronto and Canada and bring increased global recognition to our neck of the woods.

Conflict is definitely good.

]]> By: Lee Dale http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-10074 Lee Dale Sun, 16 Mar 2008 16:14:06 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/#comment-10074 Hear hear. Though I'd like to see this move from the blogosphere to a sit down. Maybe an arm wrestle. Ideally, a good amount of face to face would sort out motivations and hopefully get people working together towards the common goal of improving the industry in Toronto and Canada and bring increased global recognition to our neck of the woods. Conflict is definitely good. Hear hear. Though I’d like to see this move from the blogosphere to a sit down. Maybe an arm wrestle.
Ideally, a good amount of face to face would sort out motivations and hopefully get people working together towards the common goal of improving the industry in Toronto and Canada and bring increased global recognition to our neck of the woods.

Conflict is definitely good.

]]> By: Jevon MacDonald http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 Jevon MacDonald Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:24:18 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/#comment-1345 The sudden intensity probably seem especially vicious if you are seeing this from the outside, but the truth is that most of these "discussions" have been coming to a boil for a long time and I think the community just needs to get through them and get them (and the issues at the core of them) out of the way. The sudden intensity probably seem especially vicious if you are seeing this from the outside, but the truth is that most of these “discussions” have been coming to a boil for a long time and I think the community just needs to get through them and get them (and the issues at the core of them) out of the way.

]]> By: Jevon MacDonald http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-10073 Jevon MacDonald Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:24:18 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/#comment-10073 The sudden intensity probably seem especially vicious if you are seeing this from the outside, but the truth is that most of these "discussions" have been coming to a boil for a long time and I think the community just needs to get through them and get them (and the issues at the core of them) out of the way. The sudden intensity probably seem especially vicious if you are seeing this from the outside, but the truth is that most of these “discussions” have been coming to a boil for a long time and I think the community just needs to get through them and get them (and the issues at the core of them) out of the way.

]]> By: Mark Kuznicki http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Mark Kuznicki Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:29:00 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/#comment-1344 Michele Perras and I were talking about this last night. Michele was concerned by the tone, particularly of the pile-on on Toronto TechWeek. As an event co-producer (ICE08), she felt the sting that any event organizer feels from criticism. I argue that this level of passion is not only good, but necessary. Something is at stake when passions flare. Canadians tends to shy away from open conflict, preferring to save criticism for passive-aggressive backchannel conversations. To me, bringing conflict out in the open is a critical step in shifting the conversation, of actually taking on some really important questions. So pile on everyone! Comment, be angry, give praise, get engaged, don't be silent. Fear not for giving or receiving offense. Fear only passivity and the mediocrity it engenders. Michele Perras and I were talking about this last night. Michele was concerned by the tone, particularly of the pile-on on Toronto TechWeek. As an event co-producer (ICE08), she felt the sting that any event organizer feels from criticism. I argue that this level of passion is not only good, but necessary. Something is at stake when passions flare. Canadians tends to shy away from open conflict, preferring to save criticism for passive-aggressive backchannel conversations. To me, bringing conflict out in the open is a critical step in shifting the conversation, of actually taking on some really important questions.

So pile on everyone! Comment, be angry, give praise, get engaged, don’t be silent. Fear not for giving or receiving offense. Fear only passivity and the mediocrity it engenders.

]]> By: Mark Kuznicki http://startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-10072 Mark Kuznicki Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:29:00 +0000 http://www.startupnorth.ca/2008/03/15/weekend-reading/#comment-10072 Michele Perras and I were talking about this last night. Michele was concerned by the tone, particularly of the pile-on on Toronto TechWeek. As an event co-producer (ICE08), she felt the sting that any event organizer feels from criticism. I argue that this level of passion is not only good, but necessary. Something is at stake when passions flare. Canadians tends to shy away from open conflict, preferring to save criticism for passive-aggressive backchannel conversations. To me, bringing conflict out in the open is a critical step in shifting the conversation, of actually taking on some really important questions. So pile on everyone! Comment, be angry, give praise, get engaged, don't be silent. Fear not for giving or receiving offense. Fear only passivity and the mediocrity it engenders. Michele Perras and I were talking about this last night. Michele was concerned by the tone, particularly of the pile-on on Toronto TechWeek. As an event co-producer (ICE08), she felt the sting that any event organizer feels from criticism. I argue that this level of passion is not only good, but necessary. Something is at stake when passions flare. Canadians tends to shy away from open conflict, preferring to save criticism for passive-aggressive backchannel conversations. To me, bringing conflict out in the open is a critical step in shifting the conversation, of actually taking on some really important questions.

So pile on everyone! Comment, be angry, give praise, get engaged, don’t be silent. Fear not for giving or receiving offense. Fear only passivity and the mediocrity it engenders.

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