Thanks for writing this post ! It resonated and I feel like I’ve fallen into a similar mindset before.
It reminds me of a point made here: “like, will we wish in 5 years that EAs had more outside professional experience to bring domain knowledge and legitimacy to EA projects rather than a resume full of EA things?”
When reading the post, this felt especially true and unfortunate: “They get the reputation as someone who can “get shit done” but in practice, they’re usually solving ops bottlenecks at the cost of building harder-to-acquire skills.”
Thanks for writing this post ! It resonated and I feel like I’ve fallen into a similar mindset before.
It reminds me of a point made here: “like, will we wish in 5 years that EAs had more outside professional experience to bring domain knowledge and legitimacy to EA projects rather than a resume full of EA things?”
When reading the post, this felt especially true and unfortunate: “They get the reputation as someone who can “get shit done” but in practice, they’re usually solving ops bottlenecks at the cost of building harder-to-acquire skills.”