“Don’t have much time for X” is an idiom which roughly means “have a low tolerance for X”. I’m not saying that their time actually gets wasted, just that they get a bad impression. Might edit to clarify.
And yes, it’s partly about silly questions, partly about negative vibes from being too ideological, partly about general lack of understanding about how organisations work. On balance, I’m happy that EAs are enthusiastic about doing good and open to weird ideas; I’m just noting that this can sometimes play out badly for people without experience of “normal” jobs when interacting in more hierarchical contexts.
“Don’t have much time for X” is an idiom which roughly means “have a low tolerance for X”. I’m not saying that their time actually gets wasted, just that they get a bad impression. Might edit to clarify.
And yes, it’s partly about silly questions, partly about negative vibes from being too ideological, partly about general lack of understanding about how organisations work. On balance, I’m happy that EAs are enthusiastic about doing good and open to weird ideas; I’m just noting that this can sometimes play out badly for people without experience of “normal” jobs when interacting in more hierarchical contexts.
I think this should be an important part of a potential EA training institute, see https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/L9dzan7QBQMJj3P27/training-bottlenecks-in-ea
To have impact you need to have personal impact skills as well, besides object-level knowledge.