Jackie Danicki

There’s an idea I’ve been struggling to articulate for the last couple of years, and especially since I got to Cincinnati. Leave it to Alice Bachini-Smith to boil it down to seven words, as a description of one approach to conflict resolution:

[W]hen you’re winning already, there’s no conflict

Alice was riffing off of the Jason Calacanis quotation I blogged yesterday, about internet people. But this is the attitude I developed some months ago about certain people in Cincinnati who are poisonously, ceaselessly negative about the city. (While natives who have traveled have enough perspective to sing this town’s praises out of more than just tribal loyalty, usually the most passionate evangelists are those who are not from Cincinnati.) I decided to ignore such people, as they really don’t matter, and giving them oxygen can only feed any delusions of relevance they might have.

Alice continues that:

[N]oticing you are bound to win then letting the other side drop dead is not just the Internetters’ current strategy, it’s how they came to be winning in the first place.

The same could be said for those who have contributed to the positive momentum that’s been happening in this city of late.

Or, as Hugh might put it:

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