Yeah, I originally had the same thought, and I considered e.g. web development, event management, legal services, and HR services as not benefiting enough from EA context etc. to be worth the opportunity cost of EA talent, but then several people at multiple organizations said “Actually we’ve struggled to get what we want from non-EA consultants doing those things. I really wish I could contract EA consultants to do that work instead.” So I added them to the list of possibilities for services that EA consultancies could provide.
I’m still not sure which conditions make it worth the opportunity cost of EA talent to provide these kinds of services, but I wanted to list them as possibilities given the feedback I got on earlier drafts of this post.
Yeah, I originally had the same thought, and I considered e.g. web development, event management, legal services, and HR services as not benefiting enough from EA context etc. to be worth the opportunity cost of EA talent, but then several people at multiple organizations said “Actually we’ve struggled to get what we want from non-EA consultants doing those things. I really wish I could contract EA consultants to do that work instead.” So I added them to the list of possibilities for services that EA consultancies could provide.
I’m still not sure which conditions make it worth the opportunity cost of EA talent to provide these kinds of services, but I wanted to list them as possibilities given the feedback I got on earlier drafts of this post.
See also footnote 18.
Will ponder. Thanks again for going to the effort. I largely agree regardless.