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Bad is Strong

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Bad is stronger than good. It is more important to eliminate the negative than to accentuate the positive.
Robert I. Sutton, “12 Things Good Bosses Believe“, Friday, May 28, 2010

There are interesting discussions in the comments on that article where people express finding the expression negative, and their need to focus on the good.

My interpretation of the expression is that it speaks to the power of bad to overwhelm good.

I can’t enjoy the good with bad present.

For myself, negative energy causes me to stumble. It drains me. And then I also become a conduit of the negative energy.

For me to reach higher I need to be surrounded by people feeling it, and supporting it.

Only in a positive, empathic environment, am I able to be my best.

 

Firer spinning at night, long tracers of flame, person is centered and silhouetted

"In Flames - Koh Tao june 2008" by Bart Hiddink, cc-by 2008

 

Communities’ Successes

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“During a break on the Thursday I took the chance to ask Nancy White a question – “What is a ‘healthy’ community?” In looking at these various orientations it struck me that there must be recognizable ‘patterns,’ say, of a “successful open source community,” that could help us recognize others when we see them. This is exactly right and exactly wrong; as Nancy helped me understand, exactly wrong because it locates the notion of health in some abstract standard outside the community, when the notion of health being put out here is about internal coherence and accord – is the community becoming (or at least striving to be) what it wants to be“.
By Scott Leslie, Northern Voice ‘10: …, May 11th, 2010

Emphasis mine.

Great Lineup for WordCamp SF Genius Bar Help Desk!

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I just posted the WordCamp SF 2010 Genius Bar Help Desk schedule.

Like previous years, I’m really excited about these amazing people so generously sharing their WordPress expertise one on one!

The WordCamp Genius Bar came about when myself and other WordPress participants felt regret for not being able to answer all of the excellent questions people were stopping us in the hall with at the first WordCamp (2006, has it really been 5 years). For WordCamp SF 2007, WordCamp Genius Bar was born, and has continued every year since with the help of Maya, Elea and numerous genius volunteers. It has become an ingredient in the WordCamp formula, the most potent batches anyway.