What the School of Moral Ambition has achieved is impressive, but it’s unclear whether EA should aim for mainstream appeal insofar as SoMA could potentially fill that niche.
”~70% male and ~75% white” — I’m increasingly feel that the way to be cool is to not be so self-conscious about this kind of stuff. Would it be great to have more women on our team? Of course! And for EA to be more global? Again, that’d be great! But talking about your demographics like it’s a failure will never be cool. Instead EA should just back itself. Are our demographics ideal? No. But if circumstances are such that we need to get the job done with these demographics, then we’ll get the job done with these demographics. And honestly, the less you need people, the more likely they are to feel drawn to you, at least in my experience.
“Please, for God’s sake, hire non-EA creative talent” — I suspect this is very circumstantial. There are circumstances where you’ll be able to delegate to non-EA creative talent and it’ll work fine, but there will be other circumstances where you try this and you find that they just keep distorting the message. It’s harder than you might think.
I agree re: 4 though. The expectations re: caveats depend heavily on the context of the post.
What the School of Moral Ambition has achieved is impressive, but it’s unclear whether EA should aim for mainstream appeal insofar as SoMA could potentially fill that niche.
”~70% male and ~75% white” — I’m increasingly feel that the way to be cool is to not be so self-conscious about this kind of stuff. Would it be great to have more women on our team? Of course! And for EA to be more global? Again, that’d be great! But talking about your demographics like it’s a failure will never be cool. Instead EA should just back itself. Are our demographics ideal? No. But if circumstances are such that we need to get the job done with these demographics, then we’ll get the job done with these demographics. And honestly, the less you need people, the more likely they are to feel drawn to you, at least in my experience.
“Please, for God’s sake, hire non-EA creative talent” — I suspect this is very circumstantial. There are circumstances where you’ll be able to delegate to non-EA creative talent and it’ll work fine, but there will be other circumstances where you try this and you find that they just keep distorting the message. It’s harder than you might think.
I agree re: 4 though. The expectations re: caveats depend heavily on the context of the post.