The way many people find out about EA is through reading (books & articles), but the community is not built to work (well) for people through those mediums.
Much valuable networking (which opens up opportunities, strategic clarity, support, friendship) happens in person at conferences or by living in the right cities, and I think there’s an assumption that this is just clearly better.
It feels like there isn’t much concerted effort from people who benefit from the in-person (and i’ve done this too in the past!) to adapt to that reality (covid helped somewhat, but things feel like they’ve mostly bounced back, in part aided by the FTX bubble in 2022).
This post reminded me of a related point:
The way many people find out about EA is through reading (books & articles), but the community is not built to work (well) for people through those mediums.
Much valuable networking (which opens up opportunities, strategic clarity, support, friendship) happens in person at conferences or by living in the right cities, and I think there’s an assumption that this is just clearly better.
It feels like there isn’t much concerted effort from people who benefit from the in-person (and i’ve done this too in the past!) to adapt to that reality (covid helped somewhat, but things feel like they’ve mostly bounced back, in part aided by the FTX bubble in 2022).