Every so often there are hobby tech projects that launch here on the EA Forum, those are the sorts of âEA Entrepreneurshipâ Iâm thinking of.
Cool, Iâm not sure we really disagree â the thing I want to flag is that these projects generally seem to fail not because of software engineering but because of some non-technical thing (e.g. they are not actually solving an important problem).
these projects generally seem to fail not because of software engineering but because of some non-technical thing
Agreed, though this seems mainly for getting them off the ground (making sure you find an important problem). Software startups also have this problem; and thereâs a lot of discussion & best practices about the right kinds of people & teams for software startups.
Agreed. I think it would be cool for someone to create an âengineering agendaâ that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous to e.g. this post from Michael.
(I think this would be one level of detail more specific than your project ideas listed in OP. E.g. instead of âbetter data managementâ itâs something like âorganization X wants data Y displayed in way Z.â Possibly you are planning this for later posts in this sequence already?)
I think it would be cool for someone to create an âengineering agendaâ that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous
I think my hunch is that this is almost like asking for an âentrepreneur agendaâ. There are really a ton of options.
Iâm happy to see people list all the ideas they can come up with.
I imagine âagendasâ would be easier to rigorously organize if you limit yourself to a more specific area. (So, Iâd want to see many âresearch agendasâ :) )
Possibly you are planning this for later posts in this sequence already
My main area is forecasting and evaluation. (A la QURY). The plan is to spend time writing up my thoughts on it and then use that to describe an agenda of some kind. This is more cause-specific than skill-specific, but maybe 2/â3rds of the work would be for software engineering.
I think it would be cool for someone to create an âengineering agendaâ that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous to e.g. this post from Michael.
As an early career software developer whoâd love to take on an EA-related project for skill building purposes, Iâd be great to have a resource like this available.
Cool, Iâm not sure we really disagree â the thing I want to flag is that these projects generally seem to fail not because of software engineering but because of some non-technical thing (e.g. they are not actually solving an important problem).
Noted!
Agreed, though this seems mainly for getting them off the ground (making sure you find an important problem). Software startups also have this problem; and thereâs a lot of discussion & best practices about the right kinds of people & teams for software startups.
Agreed. I think it would be cool for someone to create an âengineering agendaâ that entrepreneurial software developers could take ideas from and start working on, analogous to e.g. this post from Michael.
(I think this would be one level of detail more specific than your project ideas listed in OP. E.g. instead of âbetter data managementâ itâs something like âorganization X wants data Y displayed in way Z.â Possibly you are planning this for later posts in this sequence already?)
I think my hunch is that this is almost like asking for an âentrepreneur agendaâ. There are really a ton of options.
Iâm happy to see people list all the ideas they can come up with.
I imagine âagendasâ would be easier to rigorously organize if you limit yourself to a more specific area. (So, Iâd want to see many âresearch agendasâ :) )
My main area is forecasting and evaluation. (A la QURY). The plan is to spend time writing up my thoughts on it and then use that to describe an agenda of some kind. This is more cause-specific than skill-specific, but maybe 2/â3rds of the work would be for software engineering.
As an early career software developer whoâd love to take on an EA-related project for skill building purposes, Iâd be great to have a resource like this available.