“A num­ber of you have told us that there is great excite­ment about the draft­ing process in your com­mu­ni­ties, but that it has taken time to raise aware­ness about this impor­tant effort. We’ve heard you and have decided to extend the time period for draft­ing and voting.

Draft­ing of rec­om­men­da­tions will now con­tinue through mid­night East­ern Fri­day, July 3^rd. Vot­ing will stay open through the hol­i­day week­end, until 5pm East­ern Mon­day, July 6^th.

Thank you for your enthu­si­as­tic par­tic­i­pa­tion. Help us con­tinue to spread the word!”

“It’s true that stu­pid­ity and malev­o­lence do some­times play a role in the dis­rup­tion of indus­tries. But in the first part of this essay I’ll argue that even smart and good orga­ni­za­tions can fail in the face of dis­rup­tive change, and that there are com­mon under­ly­ing struc­tural rea­sons why that’s the case. That’s a much scarier story. If you think the news­pa­pers and record com­pa­nies are stu­pid or malev­o­lent, then you can reas­sure your­self that pro­vided you’re smart and good, you don’t have any­thing to worry about. But if dis­rup­tion can destroy even the smart and the good, then it can destroy any­body. In the sec­ond part of the essay, I’ll argue that sci­en­tific pub­lish­ing is in the early days of a major dis­rup­tion, with sim­i­lar under­ly­ing causes, and will change rad­i­cally over the next few years.”