A public apology

@AvsA Iā€™ve felt sad the past few days after reading your resignation. Itā€™s a loss for ENS. The creativity, vision, and courage youā€™ve demonstrated in leading initiatives, navigating challenges, or rallying support is sincerely special and will be sorely missed. Youā€™re a true leader.

Of course, please take time as you wish for family. However, reading between the lines, I donā€™t interpret that being the core issue here. I donā€™t think it should be necessary for you to resign over something like this. Itā€™s a fair mistake and we all make them sometimes. For example: Iā€™ve taken a lot of risks in life, and in the process, fallen more times than I can countā€¦ Sometimes it really hurts. Each is an opportunity to learn and grow.

Ideally the ENS DAO would be a community of people who are passionate about helping ENS and putting it above themselves or above the glorification of bureaucratic procedure as an end in itself. In general that should mean that if someone makes a fair mistake, thereā€™s a lot of skillful eyes who can catch it. Then we can constructively support each other in fixing whatever needs to be fixed, learn, and grow. If we canā€™t fall sometimes, how can we ever learn to fly?

Instead, this feels to me like another instance of ā€œcancel cultureā€ social dynamics in the ENS DAO, where a single mistake kills you, even if in this case itā€™s a self-imposed act of seppuku (a ritual suicide). Is the DAO a social environment where only the most risk-averse ā€œsurvivorsā€ survive? If so, ā€¦ Iā€™ll hold my tongue because so much evidence suggests it isā€¦ hahahā€¦ :smiling_face_with_tear:

Wellā€¦ hereā€™s an attempt to change that culture a little. Sending gratitude, appreciation, forgiveness, understanding, and love. Hope ENS doesnā€™t lose you. We want you back :people_hugging:

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