one thing I didn’t mention in this post: I’d really love to read what other people from Vox are feeling right now. This is just my experience, and I know there are a whole lot more feelings out there about everything we’ve been through (and also where the product team that will remain is headed—I hope that this change does at least have some payoff in terms of focus and iterating on things like the excellent Verge redesign!)

Winston wrote something a bit more concrete about Chorus and the economic conditions and called out specifically some of the leaders that let us do some really good defensive work together during my time on the revenue team. https://www.winstonhearn.com/wrote/2023/working-humanely/

@casey This was really beautiful, Casey. Thank you 💜

@casey damn Casey that was really well said. I was really proud to be a part of this thing, and had lots of plans for how we could continue to grow it. I’m not mad about losing the code, I’m mad about losing the people and the vision of the work.

@casey dammit this made me tear up a little casey

@casey this is lovely and beautiful, and so important. 💜

@casey I’m also glad you called out that the move from product → PDT was awkward at best. Not only because it made it seem like three, discrete, separate teams but also the fact that “technology” was suddenly this very specific realm that only some of us were doing. Which was bullshit—we were all making technology, just like we were all building products, and all designing experiences (including among each other).

@casey thanks for this. I’ve experienced these big “aha – this is the way” moments followed by loss a handful of times in my career, and I appreciate how vividly and lovingly you’ve captured that experience.