After nearly 7 years, I intend to soon step down as Executive Director of CEEALAR, founded by me as the EA Hotel in 2018. I will remain a Trustee, but take more of a back seat role. This is in order to focus more of my efforts on slowing down/pausing/stoping AGI/ASI, which for sometimenow I’ve thought of as being the most important, neglected and urgent cause.
We are hiring for my replacement. Please apply if you think you’d be good in the role! Or send on to others you’d like to see in the role. I’m hoping that we find someone who is highly passionate about CEEALAR, and able to take it to the next level (possibly even franchising the model to other locations? Something that has been talked about a lot for various locations but has still yet to happen.)
I haven’t visited CEELAR and I don’t know how impactful it has been, but one thing I’ve always admired about you via your work on this project is your grit and agency. When you thought it was a good idea back in 2018, you went ahead and bought the place. When you needed funding, you asked and wrote a lot about what was needed. You clearly care a lot about this project, and that really shows. I hope your successor will too.
I’m reminded of Lizka’s Invisible Impact post. It’s easy to spot flaws in projects that actually materialise but hard/impossible to criticise the absence of projects that never materialised. I get the sense you aren’t error adverse, and you go out and try things. I think more people in the community should try things like CEELAR and be more like you in this regard.
After nearly 7 years, I intend to soon step down as Executive Director of CEEALAR, founded by me as the EA Hotel in 2018. I will remain a Trustee, but take more of a back seat role. This is in order to focus more of my efforts on slowing down/pausing/stoping AGI/ASI, which for some time now I’ve thought of as being the most important, neglected and urgent cause.
We are hiring for my replacement. Please apply if you think you’d be good in the role! Or send on to others you’d like to see in the role. I’m hoping that we find someone who is highly passionate about CEEALAR, and able to take it to the next level (possibly even franchising the model to other locations? Something that has been talked about a lot for various locations but has still yet to happen.)
I haven’t visited CEELAR and I don’t know how impactful it has been, but one thing I’ve always admired about you via your work on this project is your grit and agency. When you thought it was a good idea back in 2018, you went ahead and bought the place. When you needed funding, you asked and wrote a lot about what was needed. You clearly care a lot about this project, and that really shows. I hope your successor will too.
I’m reminded of Lizka’s Invisible Impact post. It’s easy to spot flaws in projects that actually materialise but hard/impossible to criticise the absence of projects that never materialised. I get the sense you aren’t error adverse, and you go out and try things. I think more people in the community should try things like CEELAR and be more like you in this regard.
All the best :)