Thank you for this post and the work you’re doing. Given the small size and newness of the EA community and many orgs/projects, I’m personally also very worried about something like “right group of people, great practices, unforeseen or unpreventable dependencies that lead to major risk of collapse should a few key things go wrong in succession.” My impression is that in some cases things have been going very well but the external pressures have been so substantial and consistent the past few months that even very stable teams are trembling. Sound practices can help mitigate this, but I also want to see more people feeling ok saying, “this is a shit time and we’re treading water, but we’re able to tread water until we reach shore because we prioritized a healthy infrastructure beforehand.”
Thank you for this post and the work you’re doing. Given the small size and newness of the EA community and many orgs/projects, I’m personally also very worried about something like “right group of people, great practices, unforeseen or unpreventable dependencies that lead to major risk of collapse should a few key things go wrong in succession.” My impression is that in some cases things have been going very well but the external pressures have been so substantial and consistent the past few months that even very stable teams are trembling. Sound practices can help mitigate this, but I also want to see more people feeling ok saying, “this is a shit time and we’re treading water, but we’re able to tread water until we reach shore because we prioritized a healthy infrastructure beforehand.”