Thanks for doing this work. I especially appreciate the recommendations on applying best practices for boards, CEOs, etc.
One question, and apologies if I did not read all the material around this project carefully enough: Could the composition of the participants of this initiative have influenced results? I think you said that some suggestions for reforms could not be agreed upon and/or that they could be net negative. I am asking especially as some recent issues in EA have been around gender and race and such initiatives could have different levels of support based on the composition of the team reviewing such initiatives.
I’m sure it’s true that a different group of people would have come up with different projects that seemed most useful and practical to them. I don’t remember noticing disagreement that seemed to be along demographic lines. My perception is that the main axis on which we often had different ideas was “centralization vs decentralization”, for example with Ozzie often proposing more centralization and me leaning toward decentralization. My hunch is this is related to Ozzie’s experience at small organizations and my experience at a larger (for EA) one.
Thanks for doing this work. I especially appreciate the recommendations on applying best practices for boards, CEOs, etc.
One question, and apologies if I did not read all the material around this project carefully enough: Could the composition of the participants of this initiative have influenced results? I think you said that some suggestions for reforms could not be agreed upon and/or that they could be net negative. I am asking especially as some recent issues in EA have been around gender and race and such initiatives could have different levels of support based on the composition of the team reviewing such initiatives.
I’m sure it’s true that a different group of people would have come up with different projects that seemed most useful and practical to them. I don’t remember noticing disagreement that seemed to be along demographic lines. My perception is that the main axis on which we often had different ideas was “centralization vs decentralization”, for example with Ozzie often proposing more centralization and me leaning toward decentralization. My hunch is this is related to Ozzie’s experience at small organizations and my experience at a larger (for EA) one.
Thanks for clarifying Julia. And again I am really glad you undertook this work.