I don’t have the impression that most people talk and listen to outsiders as much as I do. I think the Bay Area is a lot worse about this than Boston (for instance, AFAIK the Bay Area has no introductory EA meetups), so maybe it’s an issue with how numerous local EAs are? In Boston we were forced to talk and listen to outsiders a lot because there weren’t enough insiders, but in the Bay Area you can easily forge an entire social circle out of people in the EA movement and never interact with anyone else.
This might explain why Jess has observations closer to mine than yours, since hers are based partly on Oxford, which has a similar critical mass to the Bay Area.
I don’t have the impression that most people talk and listen to outsiders as much as I do. I think the Bay Area is a lot worse about this than Boston (for instance, AFAIK the Bay Area has no introductory EA meetups), so maybe it’s an issue with how numerous local EAs are? In Boston we were forced to talk and listen to outsiders a lot because there weren’t enough insiders, but in the Bay Area you can easily forge an entire social circle out of people in the EA movement and never interact with anyone else.
This might explain why Jess has observations closer to mine than yours, since hers are based partly on Oxford, which has a similar critical mass to the Bay Area.