Hi Jacy, in addition to one interview done per month, if others volunteered to get on board with the EA Interview Series, would you be willing or able to produce more than one interview per month for the EA Forum?
I think once a month is ideal. More frequently and I think it might be less interesting/notable. But I don’t feel strongly and could see myself changing my mind pretty easily here.
I think having more frequent interviews would be interesting as long as the styles of the interview were dynamic. For example, I think lots of folks are interested in learning about the managers and the different roles in different effective altruism organizations, like this interview with Michelle. In this case, I think it makes sense to have them once per month. However, I can see how folks might get bored by having one of those every week. I think finding effective altruists who are doing work in some way unique, or who have some really novel opinions across a diversity of causes, would be the ones worth having interviews with as well.
For example, Soeren is currently working on a ‘working at an EA organization’ series of blog posts, which effectively act as interviews with the manager of each organization, yet the posts exist with a different goal in mind than the EA Interview Series, and are written in a much different style compared to a typical interview. I’ll think on some effective altruists who are doing especially novel work, and try figuring out if there’s value in interviewing them differently as well.
Hi Jacy, in addition to one interview done per month, if others volunteered to get on board with the EA Interview Series, would you be willing or able to produce more than one interview per month for the EA Forum?
I think once a month is ideal. More frequently and I think it might be less interesting/notable. But I don’t feel strongly and could see myself changing my mind pretty easily here.
I think having more frequent interviews would be interesting as long as the styles of the interview were dynamic. For example, I think lots of folks are interested in learning about the managers and the different roles in different effective altruism organizations, like this interview with Michelle. In this case, I think it makes sense to have them once per month. However, I can see how folks might get bored by having one of those every week. I think finding effective altruists who are doing work in some way unique, or who have some really novel opinions across a diversity of causes, would be the ones worth having interviews with as well.
For example, Soeren is currently working on a ‘working at an EA organization’ series of blog posts, which effectively act as interviews with the manager of each organization, yet the posts exist with a different goal in mind than the EA Interview Series, and are written in a much different style compared to a typical interview. I’ll think on some effective altruists who are doing especially novel work, and try figuring out if there’s value in interviewing them differently as well.