I read this a while ago, and the part about being an end in ourselves really stuck. I’m now saying it to others. Thanks for writing this.
As a full-time community builder myself, I often go into phases of asking myself why I give so much when I could be more selfish, and this part of the post really helped crystallize how I felt—though I’m not saying people are ungrateful, that is as far away as describing my experience with people in EA communities as one can get!
I read this a while ago, and the part about being an end in ourselves really stuck. I’m now saying it to others. Thanks for writing this.
As a full-time community builder myself, I often go into phases of asking myself why I give so much when I could be more selfish, and this part of the post really helped crystallize how I felt—though I’m not saying people are ungrateful, that is as far away as describing my experience with people in EA communities as one can get!