My point is that it’s not separate. People doing community building can (and should) talk a bunch to people focused on direct work. And we should see some of people moving backwards and forwards between community building and more direct work.
I think if we take a snapshot in 2022 it looks a bit more like there’s a community-building track. So arguably my title is aspirational. But I think the presence or absence of a “track” (that people make career decisions based on) is a fact spanning years/decades, and my best guess is that (for the kind of reasons articulated here) we’ll see more integration of these areas, and the title will be revealed as true with time.
Overall: playing a bit fast and loose, blurring aspirations with current reporting. But I think it’s more misleading to say “there is a separate community-building track” than to say there isn’t. (The more epistemically virtuous thing to say would be that it’s unclear if there is, and I hope there isn’t.)
My point is that it’s not separate. People doing community building can (and should) talk a bunch to people focused on direct work. And we should see some of people moving backwards and forwards between community building and more direct work.
I think if we take a snapshot in 2022 it looks a bit more like there’s a community-building track. So arguably my title is aspirational. But I think the presence or absence of a “track” (that people make career decisions based on) is a fact spanning years/decades, and my best guess is that (for the kind of reasons articulated here) we’ll see more integration of these areas, and the title will be revealed as true with time.
Overall: playing a bit fast and loose, blurring aspirations with current reporting. But I think it’s more misleading to say “there is a separate community-building track” than to say there isn’t. (The more epistemically virtuous thing to say would be that it’s unclear if there is, and I hope there isn’t.)