Thanks for writing this! I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the sequence.
I’m curious what approach you’ll take in deciding when to include concrete examples and numbers. On the one hand, examples and statistics from organizations you’ve studied could make your claims more compelling and increase the chance others will apply them in their own decision-making. On the other hand, I recognize there may be privacy concerns with some of the organizations you’ve spoken with, and I know that this isn’t meant to be representative research.
I understand these posts are meant as initial reflections, and I’m glad you’ve chosen to share them. Still, my first reaction was that including more data will likely be important if the outcomes are to be widely taken as practical suggestions for improving governance within EA orgs.
Thanks! And apologies for the late reply. I’ve started to touch on this in the latest post, but expect to go further into examples of risks, problems and failure modes that I’ve observed in the next post. This will draw on examples from across the community, without attributing these to any specific organisation.
Thanks for writing this! I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the sequence.
I’m curious what approach you’ll take in deciding when to include concrete examples and numbers. On the one hand, examples and statistics from organizations you’ve studied could make your claims more compelling and increase the chance others will apply them in their own decision-making. On the other hand, I recognize there may be privacy concerns with some of the organizations you’ve spoken with, and I know that this isn’t meant to be representative research.
I understand these posts are meant as initial reflections, and I’m glad you’ve chosen to share them. Still, my first reaction was that including more data will likely be important if the outcomes are to be widely taken as practical suggestions for improving governance within EA orgs.
Thanks! And apologies for the late reply. I’ve started to touch on this in the latest post, but expect to go further into examples of risks, problems and failure modes that I’ve observed in the next post. This will draw on examples from across the community, without attributing these to any specific organisation.