Always nice to have a strong feeling about something and have your argument confirmed and strengthened by others.
I would say, there’s a lot of work to do in this space. I am happy to hear about the 2 recent CE charities pointing in this direction, and many more are needed.
One thing I would note here, I suspect that non-scalable solutions (e.g. headhunting) might not be able to keep up with demand in the foreseeable future. This would be because community building is particularly tractable, and the current level of efforts and money being put into community building could mean that it could grow faster than other parts of EA. The end result would that the types of infrastructure discussed above would continue to be out of reach for the majority of EA’s on the local level.
For this reason I suspect that local groups will have to build a lot of the services discussed here (skills training/headhunting/career planning) for themselves. Therefore I think we are locked into a trajectory of EA being a movement where most activity (research/learning/networking/jobs) exists in local groups, something most EA’s would find unimaginable at the moment.
Always nice to have a strong feeling about something and have your argument confirmed and strengthened by others.
I would say, there’s a lot of work to do in this space. I am happy to hear about the 2 recent CE charities pointing in this direction, and many more are needed.
One thing I would note here, I suspect that non-scalable solutions (e.g. headhunting) might not be able to keep up with demand in the foreseeable future. This would be because community building is particularly tractable, and the current level of efforts and money being put into community building could mean that it could grow faster than other parts of EA. The end result would that the types of infrastructure discussed above would continue to be out of reach for the majority of EA’s on the local level.
For this reason I suspect that local groups will have to build a lot of the services discussed here (skills training/headhunting/career planning) for themselves. Therefore I think we are locked into a trajectory of EA being a movement where most activity (research/learning/networking/jobs) exists in local groups, something most EA’s would find unimaginable at the moment.