One small point of superficial feedback on this post: I feel like it could be useful to change the title to something like “Professional Skills Training Bottlenecks in EA”, or “Professional Skills Training: A Bottleneck in EA”?
I say this because I think training bottlenecks for things other than professional skills—e.g., learning about EA concepts or academic fields or research skills—are also quite important topics that are often discussed on the Forum. (E.g., in the posts tagged Research Training Programs.) And I think it’d also be good to someday have a post collecting ideas for addressing that broader set of training bottlenecks in EA.
So even though at the start you said “I’m focusing on professional skills such as fundraising or management, rather than learning about concepts in effective altruism, for which there seems to be a number of excellent programs happening”, I think I still kept sort-of forgetting that the scope was intended to be limited in that way as I read the rest of the post. And I think that might’ve been due to how the title set my expectations.
(Though maybe this is just me and my sleepy brain!)
That’s a good point, thanks. Edited to clarify. (I went with adding it in brackets, to make it easy to parse but lack the implication that I think this is particularly important bottleneck).
One small point of superficial feedback on this post: I feel like it could be useful to change the title to something like “Professional Skills Training Bottlenecks in EA”, or “Professional Skills Training: A Bottleneck in EA”?
I say this because I think training bottlenecks for things other than professional skills—e.g., learning about EA concepts or academic fields or research skills—are also quite important topics that are often discussed on the Forum. (E.g., in the posts tagged Research Training Programs.) And I think it’d also be good to someday have a post collecting ideas for addressing that broader set of training bottlenecks in EA.
So even though at the start you said “I’m focusing on professional skills such as fundraising or management, rather than learning about concepts in effective altruism, for which there seems to be a number of excellent programs happening”, I think I still kept sort-of forgetting that the scope was intended to be limited in that way as I read the rest of the post. And I think that might’ve been due to how the title set my expectations.
(Though maybe this is just me and my sleepy brain!)
That’s a good point, thanks. Edited to clarify. (I went with adding it in brackets, to make it easy to parse but lack the implication that I think this is particularly important bottleneck).