This post is great. I have wondered whether there should be more emphasis in EA on ‘warrior mindset’ - working really hard to get important stuff done (discussed a bit here). A lot of highly effective people do seem to work very hard and that I think that is an important norm to spread in EA.
One extremely under-rated impact of working harder is that you learn more. You have sub-linear short-term impact with increasing work hours because of things like burnout, or even just using up the best opportunities, but long-term you have super-linear impact (as long as you apply good epistemics) because you just complete more operational cycles and try more ideas about how to do the work.
This post is great. I have wondered whether there should be more emphasis in EA on ‘warrior mindset’ - working really hard to get important stuff done (discussed a bit here). A lot of highly effective people do seem to work very hard and that I think that is an important norm to spread in EA.
One extremely under-rated impact of working harder is that you learn more. You have sub-linear short-term impact with increasing work hours because of things like burnout, or even just using up the best opportunities, but long-term you have super-linear impact (as long as you apply good epistemics) because you just complete more operational cycles and try more ideas about how to do the work.