Thanks for this—the concept of “network bandwidth” is a helpful way to conceive of bottlenecks that are similar to “mentorship bandwidth” but also include limited access to e.g. personal face-to-face conversations with people who are enmeshed in the oral tradition & community that comprises any direct work area.
Alas, I started writing it and then was like “geez, I should really do any research at all before just writing up a pet armchair theory about human motivation.”
I wrote this Question Post to try to get a sense of the landscape of research. It didn’t really work out, and since then I… just didn’t get around to it.
Thanks for this—the concept of “network bandwidth” is a helpful way to conceive of bottlenecks that are similar to “mentorship bandwidth” but also include limited access to e.g. personal face-to-face conversations with people who are enmeshed in the oral tradition & community that comprises any direct work area.
Nod. BTW, the next post in this pseudo-sequence is going to be called “The Mysterious Old Wizard Bottleneck.”
Has this post happened anywhere?
Alas, I started writing it and then was like “geez, I should really do any research at all before just writing up a pet armchair theory about human motivation.”
I wrote this Question Post to try to get a sense of the landscape of research. It didn’t really work out, and since then I… just didn’t get around to it.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JJuEKwRm3oDC3qce7/mentorship-management-and-mysterious-old-wizards