As someone who has been deeply into community building for years (most of it outside EA), I am biting my lip yet upvoting this. I deeply agree that “Being an EA” as an identity has problematic implications, to say the least. While I have many thoughts, for now I’ll just highlight what you wrote which for me is the most important: “[we should be] convincing individuals to consider the ideas, not to “join EA.””.
As someone who has been deeply into community building for years (most of it outside EA), I am biting my lip yet upvoting this. I deeply agree that “Being an EA” as an identity has problematic implications, to say the least. While I have many thoughts, for now I’ll just highlight what you wrote which for me is the most important: “[we should be] convincing individuals to consider the ideas, not to “join EA.””.