You point out this highly skilled management/leadership/labor is not fungible
Yes, exactly.
I think what I am pointing towards is something like “if you are one such highly skilled editor, and your plan is to work on something like this part time delegating work to more junior people, then you are going to find yourself burnt out very soon. Managing a team of junior people / people who do not share your aesthetic sense to do highly skilled labor will be, at least for the first six months or so, much more work than if you do it on your own.”.
I think an editor will be ten times more likely to succeed if:
They have a high skilled co-founder who shares their vision
They have a plan to work on something like this full time, at least for a while
They have a plan for training aligned junior people on skills OR to teach taste to experts
On hindsight I think my comment was too negative, since I would still be excited about someone retrying a distill-like experiment and throwing money at it.
Oops yes 🐻
Yes, exactly.
I think what I am pointing towards is something like “if you are one such highly skilled editor, and your plan is to work on something like this part time delegating work to more junior people, then you are going to find yourself burnt out very soon. Managing a team of junior people / people who do not share your aesthetic sense to do highly skilled labor will be, at least for the first six months or so, much more work than if you do it on your own.”.
I think an editor will be ten times more likely to succeed if:
They have a high skilled co-founder who shares their vision
They have a plan to work on something like this full time, at least for a while
They have a plan for training aligned junior people on skills OR to teach taste to experts
On hindsight I think my comment was too negative, since I would still be excited about someone retrying a distill-like experiment and throwing money at it.