[council] an announcement from Mikey -- i'm retiring from ICANN

["Mike O'Connor" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>]

dear all,

just a quick note to let you know that i am retiring from ICANN.  right now.  
how about that?  

it’s spring here at the farm and i’ve realized that it’s time for me to 
redirect my attention to things closer to home and heart.

as you can see by the number of mailing lists this note is addressed to, i’ve 
spread myself too thin.  somewhere along the line i burned myself out.  i never 
was very good at seeing this “burnout" thing coming.  oops...  

as to the “immediately” timeframe — well, i’m burned out.  which means that the 
prospect of ICANN-related work just leaves me cold.  so rather than drag myself 
(and you) through some half-baked transition period where i do an even worse 
job than i’ve been doing lately, i’m just making a clean break of it.  it will 
turn out fine.  you’ll see.  as of this note i’m setting down all the 
trappings.  GNSO Councillor, ISPCP support, the working groups, all the 
leadership-development and newcomer-orientation projects.  i’m not throwing 
them down, just placing them gently there for somebody else to pick up and run 
with.

this is the place where i’m supposed to write about how i’ll miss you all.  but 
i’m not going to do that.  through the miracle of this Internet thing, i plan 
to stay connected to you and maintain all those friendships that have developed 
over the years.  i’m just stopping the work, not the relationships.  maybe some 
day i’ll even dip my toe back into a working group or two.  but not right away. 
 right now that goes on the Too Hard pile.

here’s a link to a pictorial tour of the farm.  

        http://www.aprairiehaven.com/?page_id=23369

see that bench?  that’s where i’ll be sitting, thinking of you.  come visit.  
Marcie and i will show you around.

onward,

mikey


  
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