I strongly(?) agree with the high-level texture of both of these points. The first point seems especially egregious ex post. Though I wouldn’t frame your timing quite the same way, feels like 2016(?)-2019(?) feels more dead re: CB than either before or after.
For a while, a) many EA orgs didn’t believe in scale, and b) entrepreneurship was underemphasized in EA advice (so creating new orgs don’t happen as often as they could), which didn’t help.
I feel like most of the years I’ve been in EA has been in “keep EA small” mode, and “don’t do irreversible growth” memes. I’d be interested in whether people who strongly believed this before think that a) reality has changed vs b) their beliefs have changed vs c) they think the current wave of growth is ill-advised.
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I strongly(?) agree with the high-level texture of both of these points. The first point seems especially egregious ex post. Though I wouldn’t frame your timing quite the same way, feels like 2016(?)-2019(?) feels more dead re: CB than either before or after.
For a while, a) many EA orgs didn’t believe in scale, and b) entrepreneurship was underemphasized in EA advice (so creating new orgs don’t happen as often as they could), which didn’t help.
I feel like most of the years I’ve been in EA has been in “keep EA small” mode, and “don’t do irreversible growth” memes. I’d be interested in whether people who strongly believed this before think that a) reality has changed vs b) their beliefs have changed vs c) they think the current wave of growth is ill-advised.