Socially|Mundane

So Hamlet Au posted the results of an interview - telephone interview with Mark Kingdon, CEO of Linden Lab (no trademark inserted here).

Could there be any question as to why he was fingered for the job? A sample question and answer:

Q: In retrospect, would you have done anything different with this Openspaces policy?:

'One of the things I want to be thinking about is how we get a more continuous dialog going with Residents, because one of the challenges is that we have such a large and diverse population... we're too large to have conversations Resident by Resident... when you get to a certain size (and we're still a small company) how do you put in place some approaches and processes that enable us to have a thoughtful dialog with our user base?'"

Wow, M Linden: you should run for president. That spin is so good, I almost completely missed how you totally and completely avoided answering the question.

No sarcasm here. I'm serious. I'm impressed. Good for you.
To be fair, about half the questions were actually answered. Answerred in a round-about way and not enirely satisfactorily for my own tastes - lots of spin in there, but also to be fair, it was a telephone interview and that's why I'm impressed with the spin.

It takes a lot of political practice to be able to so effortlessly spin answers so well on the fly. Read the whole report over at the source, which is...
courtesy of New World Notes