I do think that still makes them sound more separate than ideal—while I think many people should be specializing towards community building or direct work, I think that specialized to community building should typically involve a good amount of time paying close attention to direct work, and I think that specialized to direct work should in many cases involve a good amount of time looking to lever knowledge to inform community building.
To gesture at (part of) this intuition I think that some of the best content we have for community building includes The Precipice, HPMoR, and Cold Takes. In all cases these were written by people who went deep on object-level. I don’t think this is a coincidence, and while I don’t think all community-building content needs that level of expertise to produce well, I think that if we were trying to just use material written by specialized community builders (as one might imagine would be more efficient, since presumably they’ll know best how to reach the relevant audiences, etc.) we’d be in much worse shape.
Yeah, I get that. I guess it’s not exactly inconsistent with the shot through formulation, but probably it’s a matter of taste how to frame it so that the emphasis gets right.
I do think that still makes them sound more separate than ideal—while I think many people should be specializing towards community building or direct work, I think that specialized to community building should typically involve a good amount of time paying close attention to direct work, and I think that specialized to direct work should in many cases involve a good amount of time looking to lever knowledge to inform community building.
To gesture at (part of) this intuition I think that some of the best content we have for community building includes The Precipice, HPMoR, and Cold Takes. In all cases these were written by people who went deep on object-level. I don’t think this is a coincidence, and while I don’t think all community-building content needs that level of expertise to produce well, I think that if we were trying to just use material written by specialized community builders (as one might imagine would be more efficient, since presumably they’ll know best how to reach the relevant audiences, etc.) we’d be in much worse shape.
Yeah, I get that. I guess it’s not exactly inconsistent with the shot through formulation, but probably it’s a matter of taste how to frame it so that the emphasis gets right.