If you have limited resources I find it fair to prioritize universities
As I see, there is no reason CEA should have limited resources to tackle the extremely tractable, low hanging fruit, that is community building. However, there seems to be a trend whereby smart, well educated people in EA:
Step 1) Overcomplicate a simple problem
Step 2) Use this over-complication to justify further complications, slowing plans or quitting in general
If you think there’s a simple problem here which is being overcomplicated, I encourage you to explain what you mean in a post (or comment). I don’t understand what the problem is here, or the sense in which anything is being represented as more complicated than it is.
This is also a post about a real thing that CEA is doing right now, so I’m confused about the “slowing plans or quitting in general” remark.
My understanding is that CEA is limited by the time of their employees. Because hiring rounds and all the support rolled out to focus groups as listed above take time
If that was the main constraint, then why limit this opportunity to 17 focus universities – 16 of which are in the UK or US? Of course, some qualified candidates might be willing to move but others may be unable or unwilling to do so.
Yeah, I think that if CEA has enough funds (which I believe is the case), it would make sense for CEA to say that they can hire Campus Specialists for non-focus universities on a case-by-case basis, instead of limiting the position exclusively to focus universities.
I strongly share these concerns, in particular:
As I see, there is no reason CEA should have limited resources to tackle the extremely tractable, low hanging fruit, that is community building. However, there seems to be a trend whereby smart, well educated people in EA:
Step 1) Overcomplicate a simple problem
Step 2) Use this over-complication to justify further complications, slowing plans or quitting in general
If you think there’s a simple problem here which is being overcomplicated, I encourage you to explain what you mean in a post (or comment). I don’t understand what the problem is here, or the sense in which anything is being represented as more complicated than it is.
This is also a post about a real thing that CEA is doing right now, so I’m confused about the “slowing plans or quitting in general” remark.
My understanding is that CEA is constrained by the number of qualified candidates interested in full-time community-building.
My understanding is that CEA is limited by the time of their employees. Because hiring rounds and all the support rolled out to focus groups as listed above take time
If that was the main constraint, then why limit this opportunity to 17 focus universities – 16 of which are in the UK or US?
Of course, some qualified candidates might be willing to move but others may be unable or unwilling to do so.
Yeah, I think that if CEA has enough funds (which I believe is the case), it would make sense for CEA to say that they can hire Campus Specialists for non-focus universities on a case-by-case basis, instead of limiting the position exclusively to focus universities.