{"id":782,"date":"2007-07-29T17:33:55","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T00:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/07\/29\/sad-benchmark\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T12:29:26","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T19:29:26","slug":"sad-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/07\/29\/sad-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After I learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/07\/18\/so-fast-im-nearly-invisible\/\">FastCompany had accepted<\/a> my reader-submitted nomination of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/cities\/2007\/profile.php?id=125\">Victoria as a &#8220;fast city,&#8221;<\/a> I tried to let as many people as possible know about this so that they could go and rank the city.  I poked friends on Facebook, I scribbled on their walls, I sent emails to people at the Chamber of Commerce and at other business organizations.  And I sent email to city councillors and staff.  I heard back from one person.  Clearly, more people than that clicked through and ranked and\/or commented on Victoria.  But the lack of response to my attempts to beat the drum for this made me feel really sad.  I&#8217;m heartened by the response from the tech community here &#8212; most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2007\/07\/29\/victoria-on-fast-cities-2007-with-comments\/\">comments<\/a> are from that sector.  But the mentality suggested by a cautious withdrawal from celebratory spirit?  Let&#8217;s just say that is not fast.   It&#8217;s so <em>not<\/em> fast.<\/p>\n<p>And so the response \/ lack of response has become another benchmark for me.  Climates of trust are built on response and responsiveness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After I learned that FastCompany had accepted my reader-submitted nomination of Victoria as a &#8220;fast city,&#8221; I tried to let as many people as possible know about this so that they could go and rank the city. I poked friends on Facebook, I scribbled on their walls, I sent emails to people at the Chamber [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,1820,1418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-fastcompany","category-victoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}