My hunch is that specialising might be interesting. We’ve got good groups working together around EA for profit ventures, mainly in tech. We’ve got emerging groups around earning to give, even for poker players specifically. I’d like to see the EA movement get so big that we have groups that are focused on particular things. These might be organised by method (e.g. cognitive sciences, maths, management) and organised by subject (e.g. politics or healthcare). Having an organised matrix where people can be organised by which fields they have skills/networks in would also be interesting. I see this as a little bit in tension with the whole ‘breadth’ thing, but you have to pin your stripes to a mast for some portion of time to get anywhere, and can always switch camps later.
The thought behind it is that organising in this way suddenly makes the questions of ‘what to do with them’ much less of a problem: each group will have projects they want help with at different stages, will be appropriate as a source of mentoring, will be open to ideas in this domain, and can help to bring some more focused suggestions.
My hunch is that specialising might be interesting. We’ve got good groups working together around EA for profit ventures, mainly in tech. We’ve got emerging groups around earning to give, even for poker players specifically. I’d like to see the EA movement get so big that we have groups that are focused on particular things. These might be organised by method (e.g. cognitive sciences, maths, management) and organised by subject (e.g. politics or healthcare). Having an organised matrix where people can be organised by which fields they have skills/networks in would also be interesting. I see this as a little bit in tension with the whole ‘breadth’ thing, but you have to pin your stripes to a mast for some portion of time to get anywhere, and can always switch camps later.
The thought behind it is that organising in this way suddenly makes the questions of ‘what to do with them’ much less of a problem: each group will have projects they want help with at different stages, will be appropriate as a source of mentoring, will be open to ideas in this domain, and can help to bring some more focused suggestions.
Too organised?