Broadly, I agree. I think that social connections bringing benefit is a deeply human trait, but I think we can do better.
My suggestions:
Acknowledge the situation. Yes, we are a community that works a lot on interpersonal networks and we lose information and talent from people who don’t have access to those. We gain the ability to move quickly often without grifters. What are the costs and benefits in lives saved?
Relentlessly build systems that scale. Personal connections are much higher fidelity than submission forms, people you vibe with are usually better employees than random people. But at scale these heuristics break down—there are ideas you’ll miss without submission forms and better candidates who you won’t vibe with. I am attempting to build systems in forecasting question generation and prize generation that don’t require people to know someone to get something done. Superlinear is the org that gets this best in my opinion
Broadly, I agree. I think that social connections bringing benefit is a deeply human trait, but I think we can do better.
My suggestions:
Acknowledge the situation. Yes, we are a community that works a lot on interpersonal networks and we lose information and talent from people who don’t have access to those. We gain the ability to move quickly often without grifters. What are the costs and benefits in lives saved?
Relentlessly build systems that scale. Personal connections are much higher fidelity than submission forms, people you vibe with are usually better employees than random people. But at scale these heuristics break down—there are ideas you’ll miss without submission forms and better candidates who you won’t vibe with. I am attempting to build systems in forecasting question generation and prize generation that don’t require people to know someone to get something done. Superlinear is the org that gets this best in my opinion