Seems like the kind of thing that should have at least one FTE on it. Is there a reason no one has really put a lot of time into it (e.g. a specific compelling argument that this isn’t the right call), or is it just that no one has gotten to it?
Some folks in EA are pretty nervous about projects where a bunch of folks live together. Part of this is due to what happened in Leverage. Part of this is that when people live together, there is often drama and there are potential PR risks.
And what I’m describing isn’t an individual project full of people who live together; it’s coordinating a bunch of people who work on many different projects to move to the same general area. And even if I were describing an individual project full of people who live together, every single failure of such a project within EA is a rounding error compared to the Manhattan Project, for better or worse.
How many FTEs are working on this problem?
Like none.
Seems like the kind of thing that should have at least one FTE on it. Is there a reason no one has really put a lot of time into it (e.g. a specific compelling argument that this isn’t the right call), or is it just that no one has gotten to it?
Funding would be hard to come by.
Some folks in EA are pretty nervous about projects where a bunch of folks live together. Part of this is due to what happened in Leverage. Part of this is that when people live together, there is often drama and there are potential PR risks.
And one more thing: if some people are nervous, wouldn’t it be possible to get funded from people who are enthusiastic?
Well, if you think you can pull it off, feel free to go for it and see if you can find interested funders.
And what I’m describing isn’t an individual project full of people who live together; it’s coordinating a bunch of people who work on many different projects to move to the same general area. And even if I were describing an individual project full of people who live together, every single failure of such a project within EA is a rounding error compared to the Manhattan Project, for better or worse.
I thought the whole point of EA was that we based our grantmaking decisions on rigorous analyses rather than hunches and anecdotes.