your counterargument here does not properly address the points from Middle Manager Hell / the Immoral Mazes sequences
I didn’t mean for it to. I was just pointing at the general dislike for Middle Management.
More constructively, one difference between current EA structure and large orgs is that small EA orgs are not married to a single funder.
I think one awkward thing now is that many of them are sort of married to a single funder. The EA funding community can be really narrow right now—just a few funders, and with similar/overlapping opinions and personnel.
All that said, perhaps we can get the best of the both worlds by using larger orgs for some things but not all?
I think we can do better about getting better sets of trade-offs. There’s also “large orgs, with lots of team freedom” as a medium. I also listed some strategies in the “Try to Mimic Organizational Strengths” section. I’d be happy to see this area worked on further!
I didn’t mean for it to. I was just pointing at the general dislike for Middle Management.
I think one awkward thing now is that many of them are sort of married to a single funder. The EA funding community can be really narrow right now—just a few funders, and with similar/overlapping opinions and personnel.
I think we can do better about getting better sets of trade-offs. There’s also “large orgs, with lots of team freedom” as a medium. I also listed some strategies in the “Try to Mimic Organizational Strengths” section. I’d be happy to see this area worked on further!