Zen...
I certainly couldn't have said this better myself: "Your main complaint ie. management, is a moot point. This is, and has always been, a family business. I have hated aspects of it, cm has voiced discontent with aspects of it, as have many generally positive longs. You know what? It ain't gonna change. It's part and parcel of this investment. You need to come to terms with that salient fact. Then decide what to do."
Too often on WAVX threads over the years, one gets caught up in or caught by litmus tests of loyalty. My WAVX profits (when they come and I certainly BELIEVE that they will come) will spend JUST the same... even though I've not been captain (lately, that is) of the SKS rooting squad. We all HAVE to know that Wave DOES read these boards... if only to make sure there isn't a high degree of "seepage" of critical information. So, on VERY few occasions, I've tried to send both PRIVATE and public signals to Wave top management about things that I think DO matter. I've done this--what, six or seven times?--in the long history of my Wave postings.
Here's the thing, though. Some folks, by nature, are very timid around what they consider to be power or genius or "great people." (Some of those who assume that they have such power often COUNT on the timidity of others.) In my own family--a family of self-dramatising Irish radicals--we got over that LONG ago. For example, we've spent, collectively and individually, TOO many hours in hospital waiting rooms dealing with a healthcare system which is designed FOR ITSELF and not for patients... and dealing with (frankly) IMPERIOUS physicians who brook no questioning. We've learned that PATIENTS and their families HAVE to be full partners in their care... and that means... you HAVE to question authority. It's a matter of life and death.
**SIDE NOTE: Real power and authority exist in inverse proportion to how eager you are to assert (or display) STATUS and/or how unwilling you are to entertain opposing points of view. This is a particularly tough thing to learn. After all, so goes the circular logic, "Leaders lead. This is what I do. Just get out of the way." But, the PROBLEM with this approach is that it tends to INFANTILIZE those you work with and for. (Now, if you need that "cult of personality" around you... that's a whole other issue.) The BEST leaders are those who want what the Army now refers to as (because of how rapidly mission-critical information can be and must be distributed) "the strategic private." One still has to lead. And decisions--de-cidere--mean the cutting away of options and the settling on a COURSE of action. This "cutting away" results in SOME folks being unhappy with your choices. And you ALWAYS end up with a chorus of second-guessers. That's what comes with the turf. Personally, I put a premium on smart FIRST-GUESSERS. The more of them I have around me, the less I have of the other sort. END OF SIDE NOTE**
Other folks aren't timid around "powerful" people. It's just that they've invested their hard-won dollars and feel that THEIR support of top leadership (even if it's just a positive nod at an SHM) will serve to encourage the "head guy" (or gal)... on whose shoulders (syapses, really) their investment turns. It's the "dance with one who brung ya" phenomenon.
In Wavoid circles, there's a whole other dynamic... which I have to (and others should) pay attention to. Having been on the (and I don't take this too seriously) battlements during that major bit of silliness on Silicon Investor when Elgindy's minions took their clue from Claugus and started their multiple attacks, believe me, I know a LOT of the "grim" history of the journey here. And ADDING to the "arsenal" of those whose "cottage industry" is rallying everyone with a bad opinion of Wave, exchanging notes, and then peppering journalists and the SEC with everything and anything they can find is NOTHING that appeals to me AT ALL. That's why, to this day, IF I find a little bit of DD that might bolster those hobbyists, I just don't post it.
By the way, I suspect that SOME of our hobbyists are going to become even more aggressive as Wave's role in trusted computing becomes CRYSTAL clear and undeniable. My hope--wan, though it is--is that folks will just let those hobbyists talk to THEMSELVES. Otherwise, the board will bog down quickly.
Best Regards,
c m
